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Originally Posted by Darcydog
Indeed - when you think of pre ICE vehicle travel infrastructure which was around the horse - Staging Posts, Livery Yards, Farriers etc etc - it all went when the ICE became a reliable and effective alternative to the horse.
People in Towns and Cities celebrated because the ICE didn’t leave copious amounts of horse manure on our streets.
How’s that for irony!
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I wonder around that time how many people said the car couldn't possibly work. You'd have to have petrol stations, garages in every town, new roads etc. Yet within a generation the horse as a mode of transport was pretty much wiped out.