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Antiflash Ops Gloves

Southcombe Gloves

£30

Antiflash gauntlet glove with unlined dexterous leather hand and flame retardant textile gauntlet cuff The antiflash gauntlet glove, as worn by Royal Navy Operation Room personnel, consists of a lightly coloured leather glove with a flame retardant treated textile gauntlet. Its purpose is to protect the hands and lower arms of wearers from flash burns from conventional weapons explosions. Operations Room personnel are required to operate computer consoles and communication keys and the gloves are designed to have a good fit and offer tactility to enable end users to operate the equipment effec

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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 SOUTHCOMBE BROTHERS LIMITED, number 00372391. 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: "Southcombe own and operate a tannery, a glove factory, a warehouse and a head office" 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.