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The Manchester Marine Parka - Ivory Black

Private White V.C.

£995

Regular fit Fully lined with 100% cotton sateen 100% waterproof with fully taped internal seams Four-piece removable hood with copper cord adjusters Stud through placket under which lies a vertical zip secure map pocket (allows access without unfastening the main zip) Hand warmer pockets lined in 100% cashmere Two deep bellow pockets with angled flaps and side entry 8-gauge two-way centre front copper zip with stud fastened protective storm guard Ventile® stud bearer with-hold tab at the base to ease fastening Military grade copper hardware from RIRI of Switzerland Storm cuff Etched copper riv

Private White V.C.'s own words, read from their page.

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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 PRIVATE WHITE VC LIMITED, number 07385261. 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: "Manchester was once known as Cottonopolis, the world's textile capital. Our factory, founded in 1853 on the banks of the River Irwell, is its last stand-alone clothing factory. Its archive of 25,000 patterns and 15,000 garments continues to inspire everything we make." 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
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.