The Horse and Buggy

(First, read previous day's posting below)
My research is not yet complete. I'm yet to hear from the International Museum of the Horse. I presently believe that the closest answer to the question of why the horse and buggy was not the principal means of transportation, rather than the rickshaw, in the late 40s in Peiping, is that of my railroad friend Ray Norvell: Because it was more expensive to maintain horses than to use cheap Chinese labor. Horses have been used throughout the world for millions of years and China and United States have had the largest number of horses. So horses were certainly not strangers to the Chinese in the 40s. In fact, the horse, along with the dragon, were idolized.