Cable Drum Cases are typically Top-Hat style trunks, which are themselves based on the standard Trunk style of flight case. However, with Top-Hat trunks the lid and base split is reversed, giving the design a low base and larger lid. This enables easy access to heavier equipment, rather than having to reach into a deep base (as with a normal Trunk style).
As well as Cable Drums, Top-Hat trunks are popular for other large or heavy items such as engines, pumps, laser printers, large-format data projectors and more. They are also popular trunks for speakers, with the addition of an upright divider panel to separate twin versions. For bass bin enclosures, this divider is omitted.
Partitions, compartments and dividers can all be added to the interior of all Top-Hat trunk styles, but these can either stop at the same level as the base split, or protrude from the base into the lid cavity. As a rule, Top-Hat style trunks are available in Industrial specification and higher.
