Company: Carley Lamps
City: Torrance
Country: USA
url: http://www.carleylamps.com
In 1943 James Carley started working as a lamp apprentice at his Uncle's factory, Chicago Miniature Lamps. After serving in the U.S. Marines, graduating from the University of Ilinois and again working for Chicago Miniature Lamps, James Carley started his first company in Los Angeles, California in 1960.
Los Angeles Miniature products or lamps quickly gained a reputation for building high quality miniature lamps exactly to customer specifications. Lamps' reputation continued to grow as NASA chose James Carley to build special miniature lamps for the apollo space shot, voyager probe and most recently the space shuttle. Carley Lamps enjoyed rapid growth and success in the Aerospace Industry in the 1970s & 80s.
To maintain its technical excellence in the miniature lamps' industry and continue to develop the company, James Carley expanded Carley Lamps product range and introduced high intensity miniature lamps to the flashlight industry in early 1980. Today,in "2000", Professional Police, Firefighters and Special Forces prefer and request Carley Lamps for their flashlighs and weapons mounted illumination systems. Carley Lamps is the largest producer of quality flashlight lamps in the world.