Talk:Buggy (carriage)

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Should this be deleted, revised, redirected, or what? Jwrosenzweig 19:31, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I removed the Lancaster County categories because the horse and buggy is not specifically associated with those counties. If we want to put it in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, we should also put it in a ridiculous number of other county categories. My own county, for example, has at least four different Amish bishopricks, and there are other counties in Ohio with far more Amish — not to mention many places in many other states! Nyttend 16:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As a Lancaster County native, I gotta agree -- it's a slippery slope if we include one. --Thisisbossi 23:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Therefore, until the popularization of the automobile, the buggy was the most common means of transport in towns and the surrounding countryside." I think the bicycle during a brief period before mass use of automobiles was probably about as popular a transport option as the horse and buggy. I'll put in some text to that effect.

I know of no evidence that suggests that the bicycle, though a significant fad in the late nineteenth-century, ever achieved the numbers that would have supplanted the buggy. At no time were bicycles "the most common means of transport" anywhere in the US. --Patchyreynolds 16:12, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tossed a tag that seems irrelevant here. Is there an Amish project that might be suitable as a replacement? Montanabw^(talk) 01:06, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The opening paragraph says, "...it was made with two wheels in England and the United States (also made with four wheels)." This phrasing seems to deprecate the four-wheeled versions, yet all 15 illustrations currently in the article show four-wheeled carts. Should two-wheeled illustrations be added, or should the opening paragraph be revised? ajad (talk) 00:44, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The page needs rewriting and it's on my list of things to do (along with dozens of others). Smith page 25 tells the basic story. This article seems to have started out as a simple definition of "horse and buggy", then morphed into an article about the American Buggy, but never really lost the "horse and" part of the name. The term "buggy" wasn't as common in England as it was in the USA. I will probably rename the page to Buggy (carriage) at some point. Lots of WP:OR in the current article.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 08:11, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and did the move, and some cleanup. It needs more... another day perhaps.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 10:39, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]