Doll's pushchair
Early Learning Centre
Category
Dolls' accessories
Date
circa 2005
Materials
Metal, plastic, paper, cotton and tape
Measurements
Buggy – 280 mm (width); 730 mm (height), Catalogue –210 mm (width); 290 mm (height), Instructions -210 mm (width); 266 mm (height)
Place of origin
Swindon
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662288
Summary
A folding pink doll's pushchair with accompanying instruction leaflet and an Early Learning Centre Christmas catalogue with the item featured inside (circa 2005). The pushchair has a metal folding frame with pink plastic handles, a pink plastic folding stretcher just above the back two wheels, and four pairs of pink plastic wheels with grey plastic 'tyres'. The metal crosspiece underneath has a small spring and pink plastic fittings with metal nuts at the folding points. The pink and white cotton cover slips onto two protruding pieces of frame at the front and is held at the top by pink elastic strips. The cover is bound in pink tape. A restraining pink tape is fitted to hold the occupant in and consists of a cross piece with velcro fastening which threads onto a centre strip attached to the middle of the bottom of the cover. It was purchased from The Early learning Centre. A copy of instructions is printed with black printing ink and there are black and white printed diagrams. The ELC Christmas 2005 catalogue has a colour printed cover with six sections of colour printed photographs of children's activities. It has the ELC logo in white printing ink on green in the top left hand corner. The back cover has 'a time for giving' and 16 sections with pictures of children playing with toys available. There are 146 pages of colour-printed illustrations and black, green, blue, and red printed text. Total number of items is 3.
Provenance
Purchased for the Museum of Childhood by Miss Carolyn Aldridge (former Collections Manager) in October 2005.
Marks and inscriptions
On label on righthand strut: Q.A.*A2267567
Makers and roles
Early Learning Centre, maker