UK SIC 2007 code in Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
46690 Wholesale of other machinery and equipment
SIC 46690 is the UK code for wholesale of other machinery and equipment. Companies House accepts it when you register a company or file a confirmation statement.
- Code
- 46690 (UK SIC 2007, Companies House list)
- Section
- Section G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
- Division
- 46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
- SIC 2026
- 46.64 Wholesale of other machinery and equipment (1:1)
- Closest US NAICS
- 423840, 423930, 423940, 424110 and 7 more
Activities ONS lists under 46690
The ONS index assigns these 156 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.
- AC and DC electrical motors (single or multi-phase) (wholesale)
- Acetylene gas generators (wholesale)
- Air conditioning machines (wholesale)
- Aircraft (wholesale)
- Aircraft launching gear and deck arresters (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, missiles and other projectiles (wholesale)
- Book-binding and book-sewing machinery (wholesale)
- Buckets, grabs, shovels and grips for cranes, excavators and the like (wholesale)
- 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)
- Co-axial cable and co-axial conductors for industrial use (wholesale)
- Compressors for refrigerating equipment (wholesale)
- Compressors for use in civil aircraft (wholesale)
- Containers designed for carriage by one or more means of transport (wholesale)
- Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines (wholesale)
- Cooking or heating equipment for non-domestic use (wholesale)
- Dairy machinery (not farm) (wholesale)
- Derricks, cranes, mobile lifting frames (wholesale)
- Direction finding compasses and other navigational instruments and appliances (wholesale)
- Dish washing machines for commercial use (wholesale)
- Distilling or rectifying plant (wholesale)
- Drafting tables and other drawing, marking out or mathematical calculating instruments (wholesale)
- Dry cleaning machines and laundry type washing machines (wholesale)
- Dryers for wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboard (wholesale)
- Drying machines with a capacity exceeding 10 kgs (wholesale)
- Electrical apparatus for line telephony or telegraphy (wholesale)
- Electrical appliances, accessories and fittings for industry (wholesale)
- Electrical insulators and insulating fittings for electrical machines or equipment (wholesale)
- Electrical machinery and apparatus and materials for professional use (wholesale)
- Electrical motors (wholesale)
- Engineers' plant and stores (wholesale)
- Engines for aircraft (wholesale)
- Filters for oil, petrol and air for internal combustion engines (not motor vehicle) (wholesale)
- Filtration equipment and apparatus (wholesale)
- Fire extinguishers (excluding motor vehicle) (wholesale)
- Firearms, sporting, hunting or target shooting rifles (wholesale)
- Fish farming equipment (wholesale)
- Flywheels and pulleys including pulley blocks (wholesale)
- Food and beverage machinery (wholesale)
- Food and drink preparation and manufacturing machinery for industrial use (wholesale)
- Food, beverage and tobacco industry machinery (wholesale)
- Forklift trucks (wholesale)
- Furnace burners, mechanical stokers and grates and mechanical ash dischargers wholesale)
- Furnaces, ovens, incinerators, for industrial or laboratory use (excluding bakery ovens) (wholesale)
- Fuses, relays and apparatus for protecting electrical circuits (wholesale)
- Garage tools (wholesale)
- Gaskets (excluding motor vehicle) (wholesale)
- Gears, gearing, ball screws, gear boxes, other speed changers (excluding motor vehicles) (wholesale)
- Generating sets (wholesale)
- Ground flying trainers (wholesale)
- Hand or foot operated air pumps (wholesale)
- Heat exchange units and machinery for liquefying air and other gases (wholesale)
- Helicopters (wholesale)
- Humidifiers (non domestic) (wholesale)
- Hydraulic and pneumatic power engines and motors (wholesale)
- Hydraulic turbines and water wheels (wholesale)
- Hydrometers, non-medical thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and the like (wholesale)
- Illuminated signs and name-plates (wholesale)
- Induction or dielectric heating equipment for industrial or laboratory use (wholesale)
- Instruments for measuring or checking flow, level, pressure etc. of liquids or gases (wholesale)
- Insulated winding wire (wholesale)
- Jacks and hoists of a kind used for raising vehicles (wholesale)
- Laundry-type washing and dry-cleaning machines (wholesale)
- Lifting and handling equipment (wholesale)
- Lifts, skip hoists, escalators and moving walkways (wholesale)
- Light metal containers (wholesale)
- Linear acting (cylinders) hydraulic and pneumatic power engines and motors (wholesale)
- Liquid dielectric transformers (wholesale)
- Liquid filled thermometer (non-medical) for direct reading (wholesale)
- Locomotives (wholesale)
- Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying gases (wholesale)
- Machinery n.e.c. For use in trade, navigation and other services (wholesale)
- Machinery n.e.c., for industrial use (except mining, construction, textile) (wholesale)
- Machinery n.e.c., for industrial use (except mining, construction, textile) exporter (wholesale)
- Machinery n.e.c., for industrial use (except mining, construction, textile) importer (wholesale)
- Machines and appliances for testing the mechanical properties of materials (wholesale)
- Magnetic lifting heads (wholesale)
- Marine propulsion engines (wholesale)
- Measuring instruments and equipment (wholesale)
- Metal rolling mills (wholesale)
- Microscopes (except optical) and diffraction equipment (wholesale)
- Motorised tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles (wholesale)
- Moulds, moulding boxes for metal foundries, mould bases and moulding patterns (wholesale)
- Navigation machinery (wholesale)
- Ophthalmic instruments (wholesale)
- Optical fibre cables made up of individually sheathed fibres (wholesale)
- Paper and paperboard production machinery (wholesale)
- Peristaltic pumps for enteral nutrition (wholesale)
- Permanent magnets and electro-magnetic couplings, clutches and brakes (wholesale)
- Physical or chemical analysis instruments and apparatus (non-electronic) (wholesale)
- Plugs, sockets and the like, for switching or protecting industrial electrical circuits (wholesale)
- Pneumatic and other continuous action elevators and conveyors for goods or materials (wholesale)
- Primary cells and primary batteries for industrial use (wholesale)
- Printing block and plates preparation and production machinery, equipment and apparatus (wholesale)
- Printing machinery (wholesale)
- Process control valves, gate valves, globe valves and other valves (wholesale)
- Producer gas or water gas generators (wholesale)
- Production line robot (wholesale)
- Pulley tackle and hoists (wholesale)
- Pumping plant (wholesale)
- Pumps for liquids (excluding motor vehicles) (wholesale)
- Railway or tramway coaches, vans and wagons (wholesale)
- Reciprocating displacement compressors (wholesale)
- Reciprocating positive displacement pumps for liquids (wholesale)
- Refrigerating and freezing equipment and heat pumps (commercial) (wholesale)
- Reservoirs, tanks and containers of metal (not for central heating) (300 litres or more) (wholesale)
- Revolution and production counters (wholesale)
- Revolvers, pistols and other firearms and similar devices (wholesale)
- Rotary displacement compressors (single or multi shaft) (wholesale)
- Rotary positive displacement pumps for liquids (wholesale)
- Rubber or plastics working machinery (wholesale)
- Scene lighting, road lighting and other lighting (not domestic) (wholesale)
- Ships and boats for the carriage of passengers or goods (wholesale)
- Ships and boats propellers and blades (wholesale)
- Snow-ploughs and blowers (wholesale)
- Spark ignition and compression ignition engines (except motor vehicle and outboard) (wholesale)
- Special purpose machinery n.e.c. (wholesale)
- Speed indicators and tachometers (wholesale)
- Static converters (wholesale)
- Steam and sand blasting machinery and appliances (excluding agricultural) (wholesale)
- Steam generators (wholesale)
- Straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane (wholesale)
- Stranded wires, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like (not electrically insulated) (wholesale)
- Stroboscopes (wholesale)
- Suction pump (wholesale)
- Surveying, hydrographic, oceanographic, hydrological and meteorological instruments (wholesale)
- Switches (wholesale)
- Swords, cutlasses, bayonets, lances and similar arms (wholesale)
- Tanks, casks, drums, cans, boxes and similar containers (excluding for gas) (wholesale)
- Taximeters (wholesale)
- Tobacco preparation and making-up machinery (wholesale)
- Tractors of a type used on railway station platforms (wholesale)
- Transformers (wholesale)
- Transport equipment (except motor vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles) (wholesale)
- Tugs and pusher craft (wholesale)
- Turbo-compressors (wholesale)
- Type-setting machinery, equipment and apparatus (wholesale)
- Vacuum pumps (wholesale)
- Vending machines (wholesale)
- Wall-mounted hand disinfectant dispenser (wholesale)
- Weighing machines and scales for commercial use (wholesale)
- Winches and capstans (wholesale)
- Wine, cider, fruit beverage production machinery (wholesale)
- Wire for industrial use (wholesale)
- Wire, switches and other installation equipment for industrial use (wholesale)
- Works trucks (wholesale)
Source: ONS UK SIC 2007 alphabetical index.
What changes in SIC 2026
ONS published UK SIC 2026 in 2026. Its correspondence table maps this code's class (46.69) to:
| SIC 2026 code | Heading | Link type |
|---|---|---|
| 46.64 | Wholesale of other machinery and equipment | 1:1 |
"1:1" means the class carries over unchanged in scope; other link types mean it was split or merged. Companies House still uses SIC 2007, so keep filing with 46690 until it announces a switch.
Closest US NAICS codes
Matched through the shared international class (ISIC Rev. 4). Treat these as a starting point and read the definition before using one.
- 423840Industrial Supplies Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 423930Recyclable Material Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 423940Jewelry, Watch, Precious Stone, and Precious Metal Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424110Printing and Writing Paper Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424130Industrial and Personal Service Paper Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424490Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424610Plastics Materials and Basic Forms and Shapes Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424690Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424910Farm Supplies Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424950Paint, Varnish, and Supplies Merchant WholesalersNAICS
- 424990Other Miscellaneous Nondurable Goods Merchant WholesalersNAICS
Similar codes to compare
- 46610Wholesale of agricultural machinery, equipment and supplies
- 46620Wholesale of machine tools
- 46630Wholesale of mining, construction and civil engineering machinery
- 46640Wholesale of machinery for the textile industry and of sewing and knitting machines
- 46650Wholesale of office furniture
- 46660Wholesale of other office machinery and equipment
Data last changed November 14, 2026. Source: Companies House condensed SIC list. How this page is built.