Timco Weatherproof Security Padlock

Mercia (Mercia Garden Products)

£9.99

This weatherproof security padlock from Timco features a durable vinyl cover to enhance corrosion resistance and improve weatherproofing. Ideal for sheds, gates and chains. • Durable vinyl cover for improved weatherproofing • Four pin brass cylinder gives extra protection against picking • Hardened steel shackle for extra protection against hacksaw cropping attacks

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as MERCIA GARDEN PRODUCTS LIMITED, number 00382248. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "a team of dedicated and highly skilled craftspeople" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
Not established. Many companies file a statement rather than naming a controlling shareholder.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.