It’s a new acquisition for The Pram Museum! An Italian 2002 Inglesina Quad stroller (or “passeggini a quattro”, if you prefer). Here it is, with a faux 8-month-old as a passenger:
You can’t get a really good idea of scale here, but that’s a large-ish entryway, and it’s completely obstructed by the stroller.
These strollers are wonderfully clever, and can be used in one-, two-, three-, or four-seat configurations, as well as with pram-bed variations. More about those later. In the meantime, here’s what the 1987/1988 model looked like with siblings who are just over one-year-old:
(The real little faces are obscured, because we generally don’t show babies’ faces on Pram Watch.)
This is an incredibly bulky, cumbersome stroller — at least once all four seats are installed. Inglesina no longer sells the quad version, probably because pushing it loaded with three-year-olds would require massive doses of illegal steroids. And loading it into a car or van? You’d have to be nuts to try it.
Which isn’t going to prevent me from doing that at least once, because, well, that’s what I do. Fortunately, I’ve got some helpful muscle hanging around. Two of us ought to be able to wrangle a fully-configured quad in and out of a truck, don’t you think?
I have this stroller! I have 4 seats, but not 2 cross-bars so I can only use 3 of the seats! I love this, mu hubby doesn’t thought because it is soooo heavy to push. Still, I can take my 5 little ones on a walk with this machine!
Thanks for your comment, Kristian. For the right family, it’s truly a marvelous stroller, but there’s no doubt that your husband is right; it’s quite a workout to push it around!