SIC 46.69 7,075 enterprises in the UK
Wholesale of other machinery and equipment
What this covers (20 activity descriptions)
- AC and DC electrical motors (single or multi-phase) (wholesale)
- Acetylene gas generators (wholesale)
- Air conditioning machines (wholesale)
- Aircraft launching gear and deck arresters (wholesale)
- Aircraft (wholesale)
- Articulated link chain (except for motor vehicles and bicycles) (wholesale)
- Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus (wholesale)
- Bakery ovens (wholesale)
- Balances and scales (wholesale)
- Ball and roller bearings (wholesale)
- Ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes (wholesale)
- Bearing housings and plain shaft bearings (wholesale)
- Bombs
- Book-binding and book-sewing machinery (wholesale)
- Buckets
- Carbon electrodes and other articles of graphite or other carbon for electrical purposes (wholesale)
- Cartridges and other ammunition (wholesale)
- Centrifuges (wholesale)
- Cereal and dried vegetable milling or working machinery (wholesale)
- Clutches and shaft couplings including universal joints (excluding motor vehicles) (wholesale)
Guidance for this activity
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