Getting there the old way

I was speaking to my Mum yesterday about her family and she told me that she didn't know a lot about her father's side of the family. All she knew was that her grandfather came from Cirencester and apparently used to be a coachman.

I found this story rather amusing, what with me being a coach and obviously me being a man too.

So I guess you could say that I am a coach man.

Then I started thinking about what it was that my great grandfather actually did beyond his title.

It occurred to me that what he did was to help transport people from where they were at the time to wherever it was they wanted to go.

Wait a minute I thought, that does sound very similar to what I do.

How was my great grandfather able to do this for his customers? Well, apparently he did it by adding horsepower to help them reach their goal either a lot quicker than they would otherwise, or because they would never have got there without it.

Funny old world isn't it!

Technology may have changed, but are things completely different when you strip everything else away?