Charles

Numatic

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Your trusty wet vacuum cleaner for plumbing, sinks and drains. Charles is built for the big stuff. Big mess? No problem! Messy cleanups take no time at all with Charles’ powerful 1060W motor. Quickly switch from wet to dry mode and you’re ready for anything, from plumbing disasters to cleaning out the garage! Change from wet to dry pick-up (and back again!) quickly and easily. A quick switch of the dry filter for the wet float valve and swap of the floor tool provides powerful performance that can tackle any type of clean.

Numatic's own words, read from their page.

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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 NUMATIC INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, number 00773331. 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
Not yet checked.
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
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
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.