Carley Lamps History

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.

In early 1990 Carley Lamps was approached to develop a high intensity medical lamp for a hand held Fiber Optic Laryngoscope. Curtis Carley, Carley Lamps Vice President developed and patented the Mediflector® brand medical lamp. The Mediflector® medical lamp incorporates a miniature reflector around a high intensity Gas Filled Lamp. The Fiber Optic Industry has been quick to capitalize on the performance of the Mediflector® and over the past nine years Carley has experienced intense growth in the Medical Illumination field.

Today, Carley Lamps has three lamp making facilities located in Mexicali, Hong Kong, and Torrance, California.

Quality Products in conjunction with reasonable prices and genuine customer support have provided Carley Lamps with a healthy business and large base of faithful customers.