When were the last days of the Horse and Buggie???

Question

I can't seem to find it on google or anywhere for some reason. Maybe you people know.

Answer 1

it's still present,have you been to where the amish live.

Answer 2

I'm sure they declined after the automobile became affordable.

I'm guessing anywhere from 1910-1920.

Answer 3

WHAT!!! Last days.. NEVER> why only this morning my good lady wife and i took a hop down to the local smithy to get the old gal shod ready for a trek across the Mendips. Next month we shall be orf to Spain to tell johnny foreigner not to go around upsetting the local bulls. Then were down in France to see if we can persuade them to take the stench out of garlic. Toodle pip old bean..

Answer 4

Still happening in some regions and among some people.  Even in the US their are still colonies of Amish and Mennonites that still use human and animal power for day to day existance.

Of course, the automobile made horse, mule and bullock power obsolete for most purposes, but, even over a hundred years before that, the railroad made overland shipping of bulk products impractical.  

On could say that the BEGINNING of the end of the "horse and buggie" era would be with the invention of the practical steam engine, in the late 1700s, early 1800s.  Do a search for "James Watt" to pinpoint the date a little better.