Stanley Electric Stanley Electric Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. (, "Sutanrē Denki Kabushiki-gaisha") is a Japanese company, producing electric light sources. Stanley has 36 consolidated subsidiaries, three associated companies, 23 factories in eight countries, offices in 17 countries and over 16,000 employees. The main customers for its core business (automotive lighting) are Honda and Nissan. Other customers using Stanley's products include Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Ford and Chrysler. Stanley is listed in the TOPIX of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The company was founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano, who named the company after the British-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley famous for exploring Africa.
David Livingstone on Stanley and Livingstone, but with a few crucial letters omitted from the surname; it is unknown whether this results from a typist's error or a deliberate obfuscation. The ABBA song "What about Livingstone?" mentions Livingstone traveling up the Nile. Stanley's search for and discovery of Livingstone is the subject of the Hugh Masekela song "Whitch Doctor" that appears on his 1976 album, "Colonial Man". There is an achievement in Sid Meier's Civilization 5 called "Dr Livingstone I presume?" in which the player needs to move his/her Stanley Explorer into a tile of England's Livingstone Explorer. David Livingstone His fame