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Firemaster Water Rescue Gloves

Southcombe Gloves

£35

A specialist water rescue glove designed to keep hands warm and well protected while at the same time providing much needed dexterity for technical water rescue operations. Made with a double layer palm using a combination of synthetic specialist materials including a clarino palm layer, Amrotex coated Kevlar re-inforcements and with a neoprene back all sewn together using a double Kevlar stitch to ensure seams stay put. OUTER PALM: 100% Clario synthetic leather OUTER BACK: 100% Neoprene PATCHES: 100% Armotex THREAD: 100% Kevlar

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.