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Hike in Strollers : Decades of evolution

At early days people used to carry their babies in slings, baskets, front and back packs. After some time Charles Burton came up with Pram with 3 wheels called Perambulator which became very famous in early of 19th century. It ultimately facilitated paretns to carry their babies wherever they wanted to go.

Different techniques for transporting kids have been utilized in various societies and times. These strategies incorporate infant carriages (prams in British English), newborn child auto seats, convenient bassinets (carrycots), kid buggies (pushchairs), slings, knapsacks, crates and bike bearers.

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A journey of Carrying babies from Baskets to Baby Strollers

The term Carrycot became very common in UK when detatchable kid Carriage was introduced. After some decades Push chairs were discovered where people started calling it with a term Strollers which was initially used for 3 year old babies. People also named it with Buggies when simultaneously people started manufacturing twin Pram both for same age group and different age groups.


When Strollers Augmented

It was very easy for parents to carry a baby with Strollers in around 1895 when Baby slings expanded to Prams. In 19th Century, It bacame more Mordernised when People found difficulty in Carrying their 2 children and Two seater Strollers were introduced which were basically discovered with the concept of carrying twins characterised with long wheels and were very popular till World War 1.

An umbrella Stroller

The biggest innovation after 1880 was, when Strollers more modified into Umbrella strollers by Owen Maclaren in 1965, which is still in high demand as it was invented with the concept of protecting new born babies, that's why Silver Cross Heritage continuous this legacy to provides such Prams in a form of Balmoral Sun canopy accessory which is attatchable to prams.

Discovery of Luxury Prams

With the beginning of a new century, there was a beginning of a new era of Prams, when Strollers took Drastic change into new Generation Prams. Till now such Prams are high on demand. With the modernisation of Prams, side by side Prams accessories also invented to protect kids from sun, dust and wind and secure prams from by covering it with Pram Covers.

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