Rob from Hills Alive visited Monday afternoon to take a look at the S5 boot. It doesn't look particularly promising for a number of reasons;
1. The Hills Alive luggage is hard not soft so that you pack what you have into the bag in your room knowing the hard case will fit into the boot. As Rob quite rightly pointed out, there is no point in making it soft as you might just as well use a soft leather sports bag or carrier bags. This is to maximise AVAILABLE space in the boot.
2. The boot brackets and guide rails on the floor of the boot indicating where not to lay anything to allow the brackets to descend severely compromise space in the boot. Therefore the only real possibility for a bag/s is between the guide rails and possibly another smaller bag below this in the deeper cavity (between the brackets).
3. The boot opening is smaller than the internal space, therefore the bag size is compromised by the opening. I wasn't sure why Morgan could not have made the opening larger!!
4. Inside the boot on what would in effect be the boot top plate/roof, in front of the hood cavity there are lights (inside the boot). this fitting means any bag would have to avoid these and this roof is slightly angled so any bag would also need to be angled.
5. The spaces either side of the boot lid bracket guide rails are too small to make a decent bag and therefore it was felt best left to store softer luggage (i.e. shoe bags etc..).
Rob took various measurements and attempted to make a prototype but it was proving a little difficult. He has therefore gone away to have a think and then return and try a few ideas.
More when I have it.
