"Our job is helping you do your job"
After years of experience in the instrumentation industry, we recognize the importance of service, support, customer experience, inventory and price. Our mission is to provide quality products and services at a reasonable cost to our customers via a fast, efficient and secure online environment. We strive to provide exceptional service and quality products that meet or exceed our customers’ expectations, with the ultimate goals of sustained growth and profitability; all the while, maintaining respect for the environment, and providing our employees with a beneficial work experience.
We have a dedicated team of product specialists and engineers to answer any application or product question you may have. Our team has years of real industry experience using the products we sell. They will work with you to find the best solution for your unique situation and, once you’ve made your purchase, they will continue to provide support for the life of that product.
GlobalTestSupply.com is a fully interactive e-commerce website that is extremely secure and simple to navigate; offering over 85500 different test and measurement instruments from over 300 of the industry’s leading brands. If you know what you’re looking for, you can quickly and easily go online to purchase. If you have a question or aren’t entirely sure what you need or what might work best, then chat live with us online, email or call! Not only does our website provide you with the right product, when you need it, and at the best value, but also, it allows you to be the first to view limited time special offers, informative webinars, exclusive member discounts, product demonstrations, and much more! We are also constantly listening to customer feedback and working to improve the entire shopping process. Leading the industry in innovation, our team is always working to bring you new and exciting site features.
Global Test Supply is so much more than just a website. Our mission is to deliver the industry’s best end-to-end customer experience. As a leading distributor of test, measurement and control instruments, we support our inventoried lines with the ability to calibrate and test instruments at the point of sale while offering rental and repair services for these products. We have also recently expanded our product offering to include an extensive range of hand tools and safety equipment from such notable brands as Klein, Ridgid, and Starrett. Hand tools are essential for day-to-day jobs to make the process easier and more efficient, saving you time, money and effort.
Wilmington Instrument Company was established in 1944 by John E. Lind Sr., for the purpose of supplying products and services to the marine industry in Los Angeles harbor. Mr. Lind had been a chief engineer in the merchant marines, and held an unlimited license prior to establishing the company. Shortly afterward, Harry J. Larson, a master instrument maker, joined with Mr. Lind, and they soon became business partners in the company that was now flourishing in the economic boom that followed the second World War.
In 1950, they moved out of the space they were renting in the Anchor Packing building on Avalon Blvd, and broke ground on their own modest building at 332 N. Fries Ave, in Wilmington California, where the business is still located today. Their sons eventually joined the business. Donald E. Larson joined the company in the mid 1950’s, and John E. Lind Jr. joined a short time later. The business continued to grow, and building additions were completed in the 1960’s, and again in 1972, when Don Larson and John Lind Jr. bought the company from their fathers and changed its status from a Partnership to a Corporation.
Don Larson’s son Doug first worked for the company in 1973, and later John Lind’s son Rick joined as well. After Don Larson retired in 1993, Doug took over the job of Vice President. When John Lind Jr. retired in 2005, Doug Larson purchased John’s shares and assumed the position as President of Wilmington Instrument Company.
We have witnessed many changes over the more than 60 years that we have been providing solutions to our customer’s instrumentation needs. Doubtless, we will witness many more. Our current team of professionals is well equipped to handle the changing needs of the existing industries that we serve, and the new industries that are emerging as technology continues to expand. After more than six decades we’re still here, and that’s something that we’re very proud of.
