"Go back in our records and you'll probably find Kramer's granddad saying that tanks can never replace horses."
It is clear that cars have replaced horses in this one-horse town.
The situation is comparable to the turn of the century, when cars began replacing horses.
Other animals may replace horses in art and occasionally for actual ceremonies.
In 1852, the bridge was strengthened to handle more weight, and steam power at last replaced horses.
When lorries (trucks) replaced horses it was often economic and faster to make one movement by road.
You can replace horses, but not their experience level.
By 1900 steam powered tractors began to replace horses on the larger farms.
From 1947, experiments were made with locomotives on the tramways, and they soon replaced horses.
The efforts to replace horses by tractors failed to compensate for this loss.