In the 1970s, however, the trend was more towards a more basic version, not fully sprung, and with a detachable body known as a carrycot.
A travel system is typically a set consisting of a chassis with a detachable baby seat and/or carrycot.
The one thing that holidaymakers do not want to do on holiday is change trains or buses when they have children, a carrycot and possibly a plastic bucket with them.
I take a modest view, because a carrycot and a transporter can be substituted for a pram.
Unfortunately pram tops and carrycots can slide about, which has obvious dangers.
He criticised a carrycot stand which, because of its unsafe design, led to the death recently of a ten weeks old baby boy.
The difficulty of getting carrycots and, even more so, recalcitrant children out of the back of two-door cars needs no emphasising.
One difficulty is that equipment such as booster cushions and carrycots which comply with the standards do not fall into that category.