CoachBuilt Prams | Perfect Elegance

A very nice lady called Pauline has been really good to me and made me a gift of this lovely 1967 Osnath Princess. Here it is fresh out of the car. This is a lovely pram and needs surprisingly little work to get it up to scratch.

The chassis need repainting and there is some touching up work needed to the green painted areas of the body. These are always the parts of any pram that take the knocks of wear and tear.

The first thing I did was to take away the old suspension straps and put some new straps onto it, I didn't want to risk an old strap snapping and the pram body being damaged if it fell inside the chassis.

The Princess has a complete set of lovely original Osanth buckles like these. I have saved them ready for when the pram is finished and has lovely cream dyed straps put onto it.

The hood and apron is the original Marimo one which unfortunately has the corner of one of the hood frame struts sticking through the fabric in one place. What happens often is that the Marimo fabric shrinks particularly if the pram has been stored with the hood left down and then when the hood is put up again, something has to give. I think that this is what has happened here. The Marimo fabric is lovely and soft and smooth and it would be a crying shame to rip it off this pram and replace it with modern fabric and so I am going to try very hard to see if I can get that hole sorted out by darning the fabric somehow and then putting on corner protectors to camouflage the darn. Wish me luck, I have never tried this before.

This is the hole that I have to darn and then cover up.

There are lovely big 24 and 18 inch wheels and they were not in bad condition at all. I have cleaned them all today and replaced one missing spoke and they are all nice and sparkly again. New tyres have really made the pram look smart, even though the chassis still needs repainting.

The handle was badly yellowed and it was the work of a few minutes to recover it and costs very little. This photograph shows why I wanted to recover it, when compared to the handle that I had already recovered there is no contest is there?