Wika towbar luggage box / carrier for my Landy

I thought to take this off the Kalagadi thread and make a thread on it's own, so I'm copy pasting all this into one post

I note that nobody actually has spoken about this, so I'm assuming nobody's actually got one, and I have never used one, so I think there might be a tiny bit of information value to add to the forum about them.

So just to refresh, the carrier I'm talking about is very similar to the one in the pic.

Beginning preperation - planning to visit the kalagadi during December (only a few months away), On Friday 12-06-2020 I went to view one, with a view to: - 

1) Taking some of the gear out from inside my Landy & rather store things like camping chair / brand-hout / chaka / diswashing basins and stuff like that there,

2) Getting shot of the rather ugly spare wheel "buddy bag" that I currently use to store my roadside shower kit, guy-ropes & pegs for my awning, and some other odds and sods....

3) At a future trip, putting my bicycle on there (Neef & Arrie advise that a bicycle is not a good idea for the Kagaladi) , although, like when I did the 10 ECO passes challenge at Orania / Lady Grey / Rhodes &  Mac clear, I may also want to tour around some of the teeny-tiny dorpies along the way.... we'll see, the jury's still out on that one.

Anyhow, for it to be of any use to me I would need to have it swing out, as I basically do all the domestic stuff at the back door, so I would need to be able to open the back door, so I had a plan to fabricate a swing -out bracket that would fit in the towbar reciever.

Scratch all of that, Yesterday (Wednesday) I went to the shop to negotiate the price & look again, It is brand new (only used 4 or 5 times) and here is the punch-line: - 

It belonged to the shop owner, and he bought a swing out bracket for it when he used to use it.

BINGO! no nothing I have to fabricate, it bolts straight on, and plugs into the trailer light coupling.

I'll  have to get one of those coiling wiring extention things for when I swing it out, I'll see.

Now we are up to currently.

Yesterday, he lent me the bracket to go and see if it fit's on the Landy, and most importantly, when the bracket is open, the back door will clear the box and open all the way, and yes it does!

On top of all of the benifits, It makes a real handy table top at the back where I do all the domestic stuff like cooking / dishwashing / ETC, so the long and the short of this is I'm going to go and buy it and go from there.

The only downside is it's color (white)....  gotta do something about that as well...

Now I took pics of it but for some reason my tablet won't link to my PC.......

Going forward, because I've not seen any discussion regarding these carriers, my plan is to add to this discussion about these carriers as I progress from here..... Get it mounted.... Pre-tested.... And finally, how it shaped up for my in the Kagaladie in December, just for in-case, in the future, another member needs info on one of these...