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.

In 50th years of 20 century first collapsible infant strollers appeared in the market, in 60th – the assortment has replenished with collapsible jogging models. Classical transformers have emerged in Europe in the late seventies. The first models were heavy enough, in comparison with habitual strollers. But big sized wheels, basket for products presence and possibility of means save have gained lots of sympathies. Today transformer strollers are one of the most bought versions of children’s “transport”.

Why these strollers are deemed as so convenient? Firstly, because of their universality. Transformer is intended for kids since a birth and till 4 years. It gives parents the chance to avoid purchase both of an infant cradle and jogging stroller that allows them to save a lot of money because they need to buy only one model, not two different. Besides, transformer is much more convenient if the kid has only started to sit. Your little one doesn’t want to lie any more, but quickly gets tired while sitting and falls asleep. At this time the stroller which can be instantly transformed into cradle will be very convenient.

Transformers are lighter than classical infant strollers (on the average they weigh to 15 kg), have smaller dimensions and can be folded more compactly. Demountable details-heaters, the big hood, a cape on legs, the additional warmed sleeping bag make transformer all-weather in use. Model with big pneumowheels can be turned into cross-country-stroller. Five-dot seat belts, some positions of a back, an adjustable footboard make this jogging variant convenient and safe for the kid. And special handle allows parents to change the position of a kid quickly, covering the baby from sun and wind. For mum’s convenience the capacious basket for purchases, some additional pockets and a bag on stroller’s handle are intended.

Despite listed pluses, it is necessary to recognize that quality of “two in one” production often is worse, than quality of things made separately. In comparison with classical stroller, transformer has no rigid basis which allow child to lie on an equal surface. So, concerning this question, transformers which have transfer sleeping bag with rigid bottom are more convenient. The transformer in “cradle” position is closer for the child and is insufficiently deep (especially it is noticeable in the winter, when kid sits in warm clothes and blanket).

Transformers are low, their baskets are not monolithic as in cradle-strollers; they consist of separate elements. The suspension bracket is much more rigid, therefore such models possess lesser passableness. Also it will be more difficult to rock the child to sleep: the stroller is rocking only aside.

If the handle is established in “faced to mum” position, brakes will be behind a stroller; therefore it is necessary to run all round the model each time when you want to block the wheels.

The abundance of demountable details imparts to transformer “the loaded” look. It is necessary to note some improved transformer versions – the Italian stroller Magnum (made by Inglesina) and Martina (made by CAM). These models have capacious deep cradles which can be easily transformed to a walking seat and established both on high classical, and on the light-weight chassis.

The price of transformer strollers varies from 150 up to 3000 dollars. For 150$ it is possible to buy the creaking monster with jamming connections which will hardly get into the lift. For 3000$ you will receive an exclusive model assembled manually with individual design, made of natural materials and with high technologies use. But the majority of parents choose golden mean – strollers, which cost within the limits of 300-1000 dollars.

Transformer baby strollers, as usual, have collapsible basket which can be turned to cradle or walking seat. The design is rather difficult. Therefore quality is really very important for the given kind of strollers. Only models made by known and proved manufacturers can guarantee accordance to worlds’ standards. Actually, exactly these strollers are reckoned among the most bought.

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.

The first Peg Perego stroller has been created in Italy by Juseppe Perego who has invented it for the son. It happened in far 1949 when mass strollers’ production didn’t exist yet, so there were only small private enterprises which specialized in stroller’s release. At that time Juseppe Perego has developed and made the first metal frame of a new design, and his wife has adapted a special fabric for possibility of stroller’s use during walks on picturesque vicinities. Other parents, admired with universality and unusual design, have become interested in the novelty. Demand creates its own supply so the company of Peg-Perego stroller’s release was born.

In 1946 Juseppe Perego was a manager in one industrial company so he had a great metallurgical experience which than has helped him in strollers’ production. Juseppe has introduced the most progressive – light and inexpensive – materials which allow him to make fundamental changes in technological process.

At the same time the father-inventor took into consideration the value of such factors as fashionable tendencies, functionality and price appeal. In three years Juseppe Perego became a businessman.

In 1956 the German patent has been bought, that gave strollers a possibility of going up and down the steps. The manufacture beginning was accompanied by the grandiose advertising company.

For example, there was a great commercial advancement on TV where Miss Italia 1956 was rolling Peg-Perego model on a ladder of the central park in Milan showing its possibilities of moving on steps. It was a very successful marketing course for the company which soon became one of the most successful and popular in this business.

Up to the beginning of 60’s a new strategy of business development in several directions has been chosen – Pines Company has been created for this purpose. Pines has continued the strategy of scientific and technical approach application at new products release that in due time allowed Peg-Perego to rise to the lead positions in this world segment. Basically Pines produces children’s motorcycles and electromobiles. Besides, the basic accent is made on new, light-weight and less expensive design materials. Thus safety and price acceptability are regarded as of paramount importance. In 1968 the high chair Baby Boy which has a special adjustment on certain level became the first revolutionary innovation of the company.

Already to the end of 60’s PP has expanded to 600 persons, has opened some representations in Europe (Germany), Canada and the USA, has created a wide distributive network all over the world and also has got some service centers.

In 1984, when Juseppe Perego died, his sons became continuers of company traditions in the field of constant production perfection. Under their direct guidance PP expanded its assortment, many progressive technologies and materials were introduced. Finally, became owners of world known Martinelli Firm, which produced different goods for infants, brothers Perego improve the basic industrial process and distributive strategy.

Today Peg-Perego constitutes staff of 1500 persons, 1,2 million square foots of the basic and auxiliary manufacturing areas worldwide – there are branches in Italy, Germany, Southern and Northern Americas. Thanks to the competent approach in expansion and timely industrial modernization company’s production constantly changes according to inquiries of time.

Internal standards of Peg-Perego Company are: the highest quality, absolute safety, convenience and comfort, universality and practicality in a combination with excellent design.

ABC Design history

Today it is practically impossible to imagine that formerly children were rocking to sleep in baskets, self-made cradles and even boxes. Today young mums have a huge choice of modern strollers created with the help of the newest technologies and up-to-date materials.

ABC Design is considered as one of the most known and reliable brands. Its history has begun in 1989 when the German, called Ditmar Fisher, and his wife have decided to open their own business for stroller’s manufacture. Everything has begun with the sale of strollers made by Italian firm Monbebena in the German market. Simultaneously they have made a catalogue with the same name, and have opened their first stand in the fair of children’s clothes.

The time passed, and in 1991, ABC Design has put its first strollers, called BabyFun, on the German market. These models were producing at the Taiwan factory. Two years later the release of such strollers has been stopped – the first ABC Design collection came to relieve it. Also production has been transferred to China.

In 1995 company made a real hitch: it has produced the first stroller with regulated handle. Certainly, consumers have estimated the novelty very much. After couple of years there was one more significant event – company has produced a stroller for two children that has inexpressibly pleased mums of twins. In the same 1997 year the first catalogue was presented to buyers. It had only eight pages in size. In 1998 the production of ABC Design Company was much in demand in 25 world countries.

In 1999 company developed the increasing rates therefore it moved in a new building which was located in the city of Albbruck. There was a big modern warehouse with huge racks under construction; its total area of 5 thousand meters accommodated 2.2 thousand pallets.

Following the fashion, ABC Design has invented a baby stroller with so-called pneumatic tires, and also produced a stool for feeding – Boomer – which soon became very popular. In 2003 one more “famous” product has been presented – it was the auto seat stroller.

During all next years, the company has received numerous awards.

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.

There were high strollers on thin wheels that allow their easy rolling on bad road, and low strollers on small wheels which better rolled on an equal surface. Strollers were made to order, and according to the form they were similar to transport for adults – carriages and stagecoaches.

On June, 18th, 1889 William Richardson has come to Baltimore patent bureau with the idea which has made the next revolution in the stroller’s history. He has invented a reversible model in which the child could sit as faced to a man who was carrying a stroller, as back to him. Besides, William has included an axis to the model that has improved stroller’s maneuverability.

Up to that time axis and wheels were whole-foundry that didn’t allow them to turn separately. Wheels in Richardson’s stroller could rotate on 360 degrees absolutely independently from each other.

Since then the baby stroller has passed the whole evolution, having turned from a bulky construction, against which pediatricians of that time came out, to convenient means of transportation.

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.

K1 approaches for speed reached by roller skate or a bicycle. You can join a stroller like trailer. Kinzel specialists confirm: “Our model offers parents much more variants of active rest with children in absolutely safe way”.

But it is not the end yet. Having this stroller you can hook it behind a bicycle: just pull out one bolt, remove a forward wheel and attach К1 to the bike by the same bolt and a plug. To protect a kid of some extreme situations conducted in this wild world you can fasten your baby with a 5-dot seat belt to an ergonomic seat, which don’t concede to car baby seats.

Nowadays strollers are not less popular, than 50 years ago. Modern models are much easier and convenient in use and also are supplied with many additional improvements, for example, an awning against the sun rays, an insect’s grid and various baskets for accompanying thing’s or product’s transportation. Some strollers even have electric drives!

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.

Maclaren strollers by right are considered as one of the major British inventions. The book “Founders of Century” puts Maclaren baby strollers to the first hundred of things which have changed our life in ХХ century.
The history of Maclaren brand has begun in 1965 when Owen Maclaren (the test pilot and the aero navigation designer) has built and patented a pre-production model of a baby stroller. Owen Maclaren, because of his activity, was engaged in designing of fighter aircrafts (before the Second World War) and, accordingly, knew a lot about light, rigid designs enduring the big loading and thus easily developing.

The daughter and the grandson who were born in the United States became an additional stimulus to stroller’s invention. Travel to England for them meant the traction of a bulky stroller. So, having taken the favorite grandson for a drive in this clumsy construction, Maclaren was inspired to the invention of a vehicle with more modest sizes, but not less convenient. Just so he has invented new generation of children’s transport!

Using such modern easy materials as tubular aluminum, Maclaren has thought up a design which could conveniently and easily carry even big child and will not take much space in developing kind. The distinctive feature of the new invention consisted in its light – an aluminum basis – and its three-dimensional mechanism folded stroller like umbrella. The first stroller created in a stable altered in a workshop imitation in the medieval house of the Maclaren, Arnold House, in Northampton shire (England), weighed only six pounds (about 3 kg).

In 1965 Owen Maclaren has patented his invention and in 1978, thanks to made novelty, has got to “the Royal New Year’s list of the most honorable citizens of year”.

The assortment of Maclaren production has strongly extended since first stroller’s manufacture. These strollers have helped to change life of mums and children to the best, offering convenience, safety, high quality, mobility and style. Maclaren strollers and accessories have been estimated and liked by people from all over the world (they are on sale in more than 50 countries even in such remote regions, as Papua, New Guinea and the Bahamas). But the most important thing consists in fact that improvements and innovations proceed till now.

Expansion of the company has not kept itself waiting long – by 1951 in its assortment, after numerous requests of buyers, appeared new kinds of the mattresses. It is necessary to tell that at those times there were no one manufacture, who did such a work. So, it is not a wonder, that expansion was followed by rapid manufacture growth and an exit on new commodity markets. By the way, the firm has been the leader in this sphere up to nowadays. In 1979 Kolcraft has mastered plastic, and in assortment there began to appear lots of goods from this material, including unique own working out – the portable Kolcraft cradle which has united a usual children’s cradle and a plastic rocking chair. Also specialists made chairs for feeding, well-known Kolcraft strollers and a large quantity of all children’s accessories.

On all workings out and technological decisions the firm received patents that became one more factor of its success. The American company has come to the lead positions in the world market of children goods in 1994. The assortment again extends – it is joined by exclusive wicker cradles with a protective hood, swings and strollers. Quality of let out production is constantly supervised, and lots of employees exclusively work over introduction of the newest technologies and own workings out in manufacture. Kolcraft annually enters new models, new materials and combinations of colors. The society develops, technical progress develops too and the corporation follows its changes. Probably, therefore Kolcraft products are popular not only in the United States, but also in the Old World countries. For the opportunity to create the best children’s goods in the world, in the mid-nineties Kolcraft made some agreements with the famous trade-marks: Sesame Beginnings, Jeep and Nascar.

Each Kolcraft goods is a handwork of hundreds people. Not only designers, but also children’s psychology experts, doctors and orthopedists work to make a baby life more safe, comfortable and interesting.

They there many attempts to make the strollers more modern and convenient for children and parents. The first reversible stroller appeared in 1889.  William Richardson, the author of the invention, even patented this idea. The stroller could be forward-faced and rear-faced, the way the parents wish it.  This inventor contributed to maneuverability much.

Ornate carriages were a big success, but they were not available to simple people and the situation changed only after the 20-s of the last century. The improvements added to the strollers made them safer for kids. The wheels became to move independently, the frames became stronger and the seat belts appeared that made the seats safer. Besides, the strollers were equipped with brakes.

Some changes to the structure of the strollers were made by aeronautical engineer Owen Maclaren in 1965, who was not pleased with the quality of heavy pram and designed the frame made of aluminum.

Nowadays there are strollers of different types which are light, functional and beautiful and this is what we are going to discuss in this blog.