Glide is one of Australia’s leading manufacturers of high-quality manual and powered wheelchairs.
Since the 1970s, our customers have trusted our expertly tailored and solidly constructed chairs for mobility, functionality and comfort.
We offer almost limitless customisation.
Every one has unique needs, different mobility challenges, and personal comfort preferences. Glide understands that there is no one-size-fits-all solution.
Our mission is to make it easier to prescribe and order a wheelchair that is tailored to optimise comfort, safety and mobility. As an Australian manufacturer with over 40 years experience, we have built a reputation of trust by consistently delivering quality workmanship and meticulous service.
We are a registered NDIS provider and the first Australian wheelchair manufacturer to achieve ISO 9001 Quality Assurance accreditation in 1993.
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We have built a reputation for quality workmanship and meticulous service.
A history of craftsmanship and care.
Our company was born from a dedication to precision and ingenuity.
Two brothers from Perth with a shared passion for engineering set up business in the early seventies to make bespoke parts and equipment for a number of clients, including some hospitals.
In the mid seventies, a major Perth hospital asked the brothers if they could manufacture wheelchairs to individual specifications. The brothers quickly put their skills and inventiveness to the test. They provided prototypes to the hospital with the promise that they could deliver a made-to-order wheelchair in weeks rather than months.
Their resourcefulness was rewarded with a flood of orders as no other Australian manufacturer was producing suitable scripted wheelchairs at that time, Interstate orders soon started coming in and demand for their wheelchairs surged. The brothers decided to specialise in wheelchairs and in 1983, they re-branded their company to become Glide Products. By 1994, they were manufacturing a range of both manual and powered wheelchairs.
The brothers remained owners of Glide until 2019.
Today, Glide continues the tradition of exceptional dedication to the craft, ongoing innovation and almost limitless customisation, maintaining our benchmark as Australia’s leading manufacturer of scripted wheelchairs.
Endless customisation.
