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About Us - Our Company History


Founded in 1911 and still operated by the same family, W.A. Benjamin Electric Company manufactures quality electrical distribution equipment.

"W.A." started producing lighting and power panelboards in a barn shop in Los Angeles.   These panels typically consisted of knife switches, fuses and copper bus bars mounted on sheets of marble or slate that were assembled on iron angle frames.   His customers varied from the Los Angeles Board of Education to the Los Angeles Telephone Company.   Through the years W. A. Benjamin Electric Company has been involved in the manufacture of products such as fire alarm boxes, stage lighting dimmer controls and switchboards for many different applications.

The company has grown from its humble beginnings to larger facilities that produce the finest quality power distribution equipment available.   This high level of quality is consistently produced due to the high level of pride and craftsmanship within our entire organization.   Many of our employees were here during "the good old day's"; and have been a part of the technological growth that has brought us to where we are today.   Our list of clients include those that we started with, though they have since changed their names, along with many others who have the common desire to purchase the highest quality available, realizing that this quality translates into an exponential value.   To underscore the quality that we provide we have had Underwriter's Laboratories Listings on our products since 1929.

W. A. Benjamin Electric Company features comprehensive engineering and construction facilities to provide bus duct connections into our equipment as well as into other manufacturers' new or existing equipment.

To assure that all components will interconnect properly, all of our projects include complete engineering of bus duct routings and connections to equipment.

Our standard switchgear is of the unsurpassed quality that we believe our customers deserve.   Our designs are limited in scope only by the combined imaginative efforts of our clients and ourselves.   As a result, the projects with which we are involved always exceed our clients' expectations in both form and function.   We still offer the same quality in the construction of our products that was the basis for the success of a fledgling business that started as gas lights were being replaced.   The methodology by which we seek to maintain this high level of quality includes:
  • State of the art manufacturing facilities that produce parts to exacting tolerances - it'll work, the first time and every time.
  • Flexibility which allows designs to match your specifications - you need it, we'll build it.
  • A reputation for dependability that is based on an unequaled track record of performance - on time, any time.
  • Loyalty to the convictions which founded this company and set standards to this day - you can count on us.
When you want the best, the first time around, call W. A. Benjamin Electric and experience the best this industry has to offer.




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