From: xenolith@optusnet.com.au   
      
   On 27/7/20 8:05 pm, pedro1492@lycos.com wrote:   
   > The 1889-90 flu pandemic was the first pandemic to spread around the world,   
   thanks to railway and steamships. Were automobiles just for the rich elite way   
   > back then?   
   >   
   They certainly were only for the rich, and they were as scarce as   
   rocking horse turds. It wasn't until Henry Ford and the Model T that   
   prices came down to where the middle class at least could afford them.   
      
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