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Seam Sealed WR Aviator Gloves

Southcombe Gloves

£165

Designed to cope with the exacting standards required by modern pilots, this glove offers high levels of comfort and dexterity and is worn by fighter pilots flying sorties over water. Made from a top grade waterproof cape sheep nappa leather processed in the UK. The glove is table cut in the traditional manner and all sewn seams are individually sealed making the glove waterproof. A close fitting rubber seal is fixed to the inside of the glove at the cuff to ensure that wearers' hands remain dry even when submerged in water. It is supplied in a wide range of sizes to accomodate all hand sizes.

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.