I know of a guy who actually DOES manufacture buggy whips. Yes, real buggy whips.
He can hardly keep up with demand. Competitive and professional carriage drivers, as well as the folks with a pony and a cart, are almost beating a path to his door.
Which may be neither here nor there, but then, there's not too many others doing it. Which may tell us something.
Perhaps I picked a bad example...lol