> Blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and wainwrights transitioned to auto mechanic or carpentry work. Not the same as the horse and cart operator, for various reasons.

> Blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and wainwrights transitioned to auto mechanic or carpentry work. Not the same as the horse and cart operator, for various reasons... Maybe the wheelwright? But even that seems like a specialism of carpentry > It really was the horse people that lost out the most. That's why the idiomatic reference is for buggy whips, not so much for buggies themselves. .... Had you forgotten what I'd wrote by the time you got to this point?