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Firemaster 4 Premium Gloves

Southcombe Gloves

£85

A robust and well crafted full grain cowhide leather structural fire-fighting glove with a Porelle membrane and aramid lining. Building on the reputation and strengths of three earlier Firemaster models, this glove is the first design in the range to move to a complex 3D curved finger full fitting tailored pattern; offering better comfort and dexterity compared to it’s predecessors while retaining all the protective qualities associated with this range of structural fire gloves. Made with a full grain PYROHIDE leather outer and featuring a digital PYROHIDE leather patch to enhance grip in wet

Southcombe Gloves's own words, read from their page.

Buy from Southcombe GlovesOut of stock. Price seen 2026-09-05. Affiliate link.

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.