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This section is for visitors to the site to have their lovely prams shown off, or for the rest of us to hear their story, with prams in it of course!

Symon Sims sent me some photographs of the Marmet that he has been restoring.

What a tangle of chassis and wheels but the chrome looks pretty good doens't it?

Symon hard at work upholstering the interior of his pram

Look at the gleam on that side panel, isn't it lovely? Well done Symon, you have done a wonderful job on your first restoration, I hope we see a lot more of your work.

Symon thought that his Marmel was a Melrose at first but had some help from another prammie site who sent him these images from Marmet catalogues.

So this is a bit confusing because the Montrose in the image above and the Melrose in the top image both look to me like Symon's pram but I can't help thinking that the chassis' might be slightly different in which case I would go for Symon's being a Melrose still. The paintwork on the side panel is lightly different too. This may just be a slight change to the normal paintwork, or it is possible that it could be a completely different named pram altogether. Pram companies did change things slightly and then call them by a different name sometimes, they didn't worry about people trying to identify them years later. I don't know what year catalogues these two images come from, but if anyone can help any further with identification, Symon would be delighted to hear more and so
would I.

Neil     contacted me months ago (last year wasn't it Neil?)    Neil is Canadian, his wife was   pregnant and they already had a stunning little girl.    Neil had got it into his head that he wanted to find a     coachbuiltpram for his   wife to push the new baby   around in.     He didn't want his wife to know anything a bout it   but was going to surprise her   with the pram a t   some time   toward the end of her pregnancy. I couldn't help   thinking want a lovely man Neil was to take all of that   trouble   to do something so special for his   wife.    I have to say that I couldn't help   thinking what a lucky lady she was.

Neil    had found   this website on the web and contacted me to see   what I thought of two different prams one was a Pedigree and I can't remember the model now, but   Neil decided    not to have it I remember, because it had a tubular chassis and   the   chassis had split, so wasn't   a good idea to have   that one.     Next Neil found a Super Burley   with nice big 24 inch wheels and I seem to remember that   I thought he may have that one. He sent me photographs of both prams and I couldn't get over how he was finding   all of these   prams in Canada    and in Canada there is a dearth of prams as we know.

Then   Neil sent me    this photograph and asked   me what I thought about this pram.

Now what could I say about this pram except that it looked absolutely stunning and I     believe that I advised him to   grab it in both hands if the condition was as   good as it looked and if he could afford it.     He did of course and he bought it for his   wife and their new son.

I heard from Neil   now and again after that he     emailed and told me how the surprise had   gone down with his wife and that she loved the pram as much as he did and they used it regularly    for their little boy.

Then out of the blue I got another message from Neil, asking me what I thought of   a pram that he was thinking of buying. It was lovely pram. one of my favourite models and I told him that it was again all down to condition on price really, but that I thought it would be a good buy if the pram was good condition.    Well I had to ask   why   he wanted another pram didn't I?    I couldn't sleep for   curiosity!

Here is Neil's reply along with the photographs he sent me. I am keeping the name of his propsed new pram a secret until later!:-

Hi Sandra.......I would keep the ********.....what can I say?   .....I've   got the pram addiction! I have decided to start collecting them, I love the hunt and why not, they are only going to go up in   value.   I have two children and one day they will have children so .....I need   a pram to give each of them as a gift when they have children and of    course Liv and I will still need one of our own to push the grandchildren...so at the very least I must have 3!!   I am very close to the ********    I am still waiting for the owner to set up a time to view it however.... so we will see... Liv and I took the pram to a local   festival on Saturday and it was fantastic!    We spoke with at least 100 different people who just wanted to talk to us about the pram and as we were walking it we constantly   heard in the background....'ohh look at that lovely old pram'.. ' look at the beautiful old buggy'..we heard comments and got   smiles all day!   I'm sure you know what I'm talking about! We met many elderly ladies who   told us stories about having their own prams in the UK and one lady even knew it was a Wilson Monaco as   she had had one when she was still in England...many women asked us where they could get one!   LoL I enjoyed standing back and watching Liv tell people about the pram...   she told me she felt very special to be pushing it with everyone noticing... I was waiting in line with Anna to get her face painted while Liv was standing about 15 feet away with the baby in the Monaco and she had groups of 8 people around her asking about the pram...it was   really something...It was very busy at the festival so we went for a walk again the following day and took some pics...I thought   I'd send some to you of us enjoying the pram in our home town! The Fort Langley Hall is where we had our wedding reception and is always being used for movies and tv shows....the ones with the   river in the background with Liv and Chase and the one of yours   trully is the mighty Fraser River!    I threw one in of the face painting I spoke of as well!   Hope you are   happy and healthy Sandra!

Talks soon Neil.

Fort Langley Hall

A lovely man with a lovely pram!

A beautiful Mother and son, Liv and Chase

Liv and the Monaco

How about this for big sister Anna the little pink pussy cat?

See what I mean about what a lovely husband and daddy Neil is? I hope you agree that that is one lovely story. If anyone of you would like to add a story of your own please send it to me at coachbuiltprams@yahoo.com