Eight years ago Trevor Palmer visited an exhibition of products available for disabled people. After several hours of wheeling himself around the show, his hands were sore and blistered. After visiting all the specialist exhibitors he found it incredible that there was not one company supplying gloves for manual wheelchair users.

During the next few months Trevor looked long and hard and eventually found gloves for wheelchair users in a specialist catalogue but found them unsuitable for his needs and expensive compared to cycle gloves that seemed very similar.

Not one for being fobbed off with inferior merchandise, Trevor decided that it was necessary to design a wheelchair glove that was not only suitable for his personal use but practical for the majority of manual wheelchair users.

The standard wheelchair glove was introduced to the public at the Mobility Roadshow 2001. The incredible success of these gloves has inspired Trevor to develop new styles of gloves and improve the existing standard wheelchair glove. The WDA (Welsh Development Agency) has assisted Trevor's company to develop the new gloves. Most of the gloves we develop are protected by design registration. This stops cheap imitations, that are not manufactured using our strict controls, reaching the marketplace. If you hear or see imitation gloves please let us know so that we can make sure only quality gloves are supplied.

There are now 7 styles of adult gloves and a range of junior gloves in our range. These are the Standard glove, a gel-pad Amara palm glove with Lycra and toweling back, a wet weather wheelchair glove with a "super grip" padded palm and neoprene and leather back, a Full Finger winter wheelchair glove which has "super grip" palms and is ideal glove for added protection, an Easy Fit neoprene glove, Wraps and Push Cuffs. These seven  styles of  adult gloves are complimented by the Junior Lightweight gloves, all have been thoroughly tested and we are pleased to see that we are keeping manual wheelchair users of all ages happy around the world.

We have recently introduced the Standard wheelchair gloves in brown leather and the Gel Pad gloves in red / black.

The original standard gloves took over a year to develop and test. The results of thorough "hands-on" testing have contributed to their success. New styles have been tested to an even greater level and they are available to wheelchair users direct from our website and selected mobility specialists. Some of the styles of gloves are now available in seven sizes, from extra small to extra-extra-extra large. Most feature a complete thumb, strategic palm protection and open fingers (except the full finger winter gloves). The cuffs on most styles are elasticated and have an Easy-Rip fixing to ensure a secure fit. The Easy Fit, Wraps and Push Cuffs have a wrap around closure and have an open thumb. The Push Cuffs are secured by Velcro strip.

The Globaleather and GL100 wheelchair gloves are now sold to wheelchair users throughout the world. It is Trevor's policy to provide excellent gloves at a cost that is as realistic as possible to wheelchair users. It is now over seven years since we have increased the prices of our gloves. This is due mostly to the increasing volume of gloves which we sale enabling us to purchase larger volumes of raw materials more more cost effectivly. We can do this providing the gloves we develop continue to remain a popular choice for wheelchair users.

Trevor has also developed innovative associated wheelchair products. These include wheelchair cushions made in our own workshops which feature MaxFlect heat reflective inserts, a practical flashing light that can be attached to wheelchairs or other objects and wheelchair bags.

All our gloves plus the various other wheelchair accessories are now marketed via our GL100 website and catalogue.

Specialist bags for wheelchair users are being developed. So far the Front Pack, Wheelchair Carry Bag and the two sizes of the Versatile Wheelchair Day Pack are proving to be popular. These products complement the extensive arrange of wheelchair gloves.