Baby Strollers Blog

Each year transformer baby strollers enjoy wider popularity. Strollers with additional demountable elements which backs can be completely spread to horizontal position now actually do not surprise anybody. Mummies from all over the world love such strollers for possibility of their use both for infants, and for toddlers who are able to sit independently. But once it was possible to dream of such techniques only.

The history of transformers has actually begun in 1889 when William Richardson has invented reversible stroller’s model where child could sit as faced to the adult as back to him. William also was the first man who equipped a baby stroller with axes which have allowed wheels to turn independently from each other that has raised maneuverability of his model. Read the rest of this entry »

Peg-Perego history

For about 50 years Peg-Perego Company has been accompanying kids at their appearance in society: in infancy with the popular strollers, and then – with original electromobiles and pedal cars. Today company works in many world countries, having branches in the USA, Europe and Canada. Peg-Perego goes on with its nice traditions of kid’s and parent’s necessary requirements satisfaction, producing convenient and aesthetic products of the highest quality. Read the rest of this entry »

On June, 18th, 1889, 121 years ago the American William Richardson has patented the first baby stroller.

But the real fashion on strollers has arisen only in 1840 when English queen Victoria, a mum of the nine children, has wanted to walk with the kids across Royal Park. Soon the fashion on strollers has extended in all aristocratic circles of Europe.

In the first strollers three or four wheels were attached to a basket or to a box, also there was attached the special handle that allows to carry a stroller behind a parent. Sometimes pony, goats or dogs were harnessed to strollers to roll children. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1980 Phil Baechler has decided to arrange a run together with his small son. However, because usual strollers wouldn’t sustain speed of an adult person’s run, Phil has decided to improve a model. So, this way he has invented three-wheeled strollers.

Baechler ideas were picked up by many baby strollers’ manufacturers, and in 2006 German company Kinzel K1 together with design studio Jahn-Design has presented a new generation of strollers: a crossover SUV (Sport Utility Vehicle) – a sports stroller for children and their parents. Have you ever run with a stroller? Now you can be engaged in. Read the rest of this entry »

The country: England

If you will ask any English inhabitant what stroller does he/she use, every second man/woman will answer “Maclaren”. And in the Western Europe, every fifth stroller was made by Maclaren. Lots of Hollywood mums choose it too. Probably, there are some reasons. Let’s understand which. Read the rest of this entry »

Kolcraft is the largest and the most authoritative manufacturer of children goods in the USA. The company has existed since 1946. Exactly in those times the ordinary Chicago citizen Leo Koltun, who was engaged in manufacturing of soft children’s mattresses, had noticed, that after their manufacture there remain a lot of waste – stuffing pieces, different oilcloth… Koltun had decided not to throw out these rests and, without hesitation, has made his first wooden bed. So, the history of the one of the biggest American companies has begun with manual skills and manufacture in house conditions.

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This is surprising but the inventor of the stroller was the personality famous for garden architecture. His name was William Kent and he invented the first baby stroller in 1733. Duke of Devonshire applied to him to devise some kind of transportation to carry children. So the first stroller was a shell-shaped basket on wheels strong enough to keep the child. The inventor decorated it in a beautiful way. It was meant to be pulled forward by a pony or a goat. The popularity of such strollers was confirmed after Queen Victoria acquired 3 strollers, which were made of wood or wicker at that time. The joints were made of brass, which was very expensive. It even became the symbol of high status to have a baby stroller. But they were not very functional then.

They there many attempts to make the strollers more modern and convenient for children and parents. Read the rest of this entry »