Before he started speedway Kitchen was a prominent road trials rider and had taken part in the
Isle of Man TT. His pre-war career was with Belle Vue. After the war he rode in various meeting during late 1945 before becoming the captain of the
Wembley Lions in 1946 and finished second in the
British Speedway Championship. Kitchen was a member of a
National League winning team eleven times in twenty years, a feat made even more exceptional given the fact that the outbreak of
World War II cost his Belle Vue team the chance of earning Kitchen a twelfth title (the Aces were top of the league when it was abandoned), and the fact that the competition was suspended a further six seasons during the war. Kitchen was a regular
England international with 41 appearances for the national team. In 1950, Bill Kitchen won the
Australian 3 Lap Championship at the
Tracey's Speedway in Melbourne. After retirement, Bill ran a motor spares shop bearing his own name, in Station Road Harrow until at least the 1980s. ==World Final appearances==