Large blue Samsonite hard-plastic suitcase - good condition (Primrose LA1)

A large blue Samsonite hard plastic suitcase (1980s?) in mostly good condition.

It measures 77 cm high by 53cm wide by 30cm deep, including wheels and handles, and weighs about 6kg.

It is a well-traveled case, but extremely robust and solid.

The outside bears a number of light scuffs and marks, but the inside is in great condition.

It has a working combination lock (set to 000 as a default) and two corner locks operated by slider buttons.

Unlike more modern designs, the pull-handle and the aluminium tubes it slides in and out of are external to the suitcase body.

The pull handle goes up and down fine, but the plastic block end-piece that should secure the bottom end of the left aluminium tube to the suitcase body has broken off and gone missing, so its screw was doing nothing useful. I have replaced the original screw with different screw and nut arrangement and the aluminium tube feels very secure now, but I can do nothing to replace the plastic block end-piece.