During service, especially on exercises and operations, crew space is at a premium in such a smal vehicle. The only practical solution was for individual unit workshops to create hampers over the rear deck, still allowing access to the engine covers. For this reason, Ferret hampers tended to have hinged rear legs, the front ones just resing on the deck held down by he weight of gear stowed away.
This is the first of three alernative hampers from SMM. There was a huge variation, with very little standard. This is a ‘mid-size’ hamper in between the first ones – small baskets used by the UN (SMM3564H3) - and larger ones used by BAOR and during Gulf War 1 (SMM3564H2).