Precision integrated flight cases for vision mixers, engineering racks, and PPU flypacks

Paddock-ready precision: Flight cases engineered for the relentless logistics of Motorsport

Integrated vaults for high-lumen projectors, LED walls and signal processing racks designed for the touring pro

designed here
since '83

Every case starts with the same few questions. Because each answer changes how the case is built.

made in market harborough

Built to be
forgotten

Designed around what's inside. Years of protection

Where it sits

Not everything needs a flight case.

Some things do. A truck pack. A rack that goes out forty times a year. Anything that meets a tail lift in the dark.

Most things don't. A Lite Guard case is riveted plastic, cut and foam-lined to what goes inside, and 60% lighter than a flight case. It goes on every job and nobody talks about it.

  1. Edge of a heavy-duty flight case showing the ply layers and a recessed handle

    9mm · 7mm · 4mm

    Flight case

    The heavy one. Built for the road, in three weights.

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  2. Black Lite Guard plastic case on the workshop bench

    1.3mm

    Lite Guard plastic case

    Riveted, foam-lined, built around the object.

    You're here
  3. Custom padded bag with a CNC foam insert

    Soft

    Padded bags & covers

    Soft-sided bags and drop-over covers. For kit that just needs covering.

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We make every rung. Most customers only know about one.

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Built around

Cut to the kit.

Whatever the object, no matter how obscure. If it has a shape, we can cut around it.

Race helmet seated in a foam-lined Lite Guard plastic caseHelmet
Display screen in a custom plastic screen case with CNC foamScreen
Small 3U rack unit housed in a riveted Lite Guard plastic caseSmall rack
Mirror ball in an open Lite Guard case with light across blackMirror ball

Every case starts with the same few questions. Not to slow things down. Because each answer changes how the case is built.


Before we price anything

We ask why.

We ask a lot of questions. Sometimes too many. Every one saves a case built wrong or a remake, and it's cheaper than finding out on the job.

Foam
01

What's going in it?

We cut around the kit, not around a standard size.

Base
02

What does it weigh?

Hardboard, or 5.5mm ply for heavier loads.

Seams
03

Will they stack?

A double seam, a timber in the end, or an aluminium extrusion down the corner.

Corners
04

Will it take a beating?

Metal corners, on the ones that actually hit the floor or walls.

Lid & handles
05

Who's carrying it?

Handles or a shoulder strap. A lift-off lid, or hinged with lockable clasps.

The drawing
06

How many do you need?

One or a hundred. We keep every drawing, so the next one matches.

"I won't put anything through unless I'm one hundred percent happy with it."From the design office

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Worth knowing

What it won't do.

WaterproofShowerproof.

It's riveted from several pieces, and water can find a seam. It'll take rain. It won't take being dropped in a lake.

"It's not submersible. But if it took a bit of a shower, it'd be okay."

Any sizeAbout a metre.

Much over a metre tall and it won't go through the creasing machine. Much over 1.8 metres long and it needs a riveted joint across the middle. We'll tell you before you order, not after.

In stockBuilt to order.

Nothing sits on a shelf. Every case is built here, to the drawing, in the order it came in. Most are ready in about a week.

Any PantoneEight colours.

Textured black as standard, or pick from the range: white, grey, navy, green, red, burgundy and yellow. No minimum.

A specific Pantone reference means a run of sheet made for you, and the minimum is a tonne, which is a few hundred cases. Worth it for a fleet. Not for one.

PlasticRecycled.

Yes, it's plastic. That's why it's light and why it lasts. It's HDPE, one of the few plastics that gets recycled in practice, and our offcuts are recycled into new sheet rather than skipped. A case that goes on every job for decades is a lot of boxes not made. When it's finally done, it goes back in.

Flight Case Edge.
Plastic Body.

Here's a Lite Guard case with a 7mm flight case extrusion folded into the lip of the box and the lid.


Hands marking up a handwritten job card in Nomad's design office

The design office, Market Harborough

Market Harborough

Designed here since 1983.

Lisa drew her first case here in 1983, and she still designs them. She was offered the job six weeks in, when the designer she was learning from left.

"I said I don't really know what I'm doing. But if you teach me, I'll try."

The board on the design office wall, the one every job card passes through, was her idea. It's still there.

Along the way she's designed cases for computer reel tapes and for a skeleton. She's also designed one for a plastic pelvis, made fifty or a hundred at a time, which goes to countries where it's used to teach how birth works.


Two weathered black plastic cases from the 1980s, found in a shed, still intact
Riveted corner of a 1980s plastic case, worn but holding its shape

Still here.

Two plastic cases we made in the eighties. Found in a shed this year. Still square.

Why it lasts

01

The rivets

Riveted seam, hinge and corner caps on a Lite Guard plastic case

Every seam riveted by hand. Nothing glued, so nothing lets go.

02

The fold

Folded corner of a Lite Guard plastic case

One sheet, creased and folded. The corners are bends, not joins.

03

The hardware

Lockable clasp on a Lite Guard plastic case

Metal corners and lockable clasps. On the parts that take a bashing.

04

The foam

Race helmet seated in foam inside a Lite Guard plastic case

Foam cut to the object. Nothing moves, so nothing wears.

And it doesn't go brittle in the cold, which is why these two survived a shed.

Start here

Tell us what it's for.

The same questions we'd ask on the phone. Answer as many as you can and we'll come back with a drawing, not just a price.

No minimum order. If a flight case is the better answer, we'll say so.