The Charles P. Crowley Company is a family-owned manufacturers' representative firm, founded in 1932 by Charles P. Crowley, Sr., a Stone & Webster engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. Charles Crowley was sent West in 1924 to build the first Edison steam plant in Long Beach, California. He founded our business and operated it for several years a single-person representative agency near downtown Los Angeles. Our headquarters were in Los Angeles until 1955, in the City of Commerce until 1995, and in San Dimas until 2004, when we moved to our current location in Irwindale, California...just 21 miles northeast of our original location. Management was passed to Paul Crowley in 1962 and to Jon Crowley in 1993. Our original emphasis was the representation of East Coast manufacturers for steam, flow, and water-treatment-related products for the power, refinery and water/waste industries. We made direct calls on end users and participated in extensive specification work with consulting engineers. Our sales emphasis gradually shifted from being exclusively industrial (through the 1950s) to an even industrial / municipal balance as southern California grew. We have outlived every company we originally represented in 1932 . |
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 CHARLES P. (PAUL) CROWLEY,JR. (President from 1962-1993) |
