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 History of Car-workshop
Function
The vehicle-repair workshops are as old as the motor-car itself. Their ancestors were, e.g., the bicycle repair-shops and the blacksmiths. The workshops are different to the manufacturers, even today they are nearly
always organised as tradesmen or craftsmen. This craftsmanship and the guilds have been around ever since the middle ages. The initial resemblance between the production and the repair was quickly dissolved.
How it works
Right up to the second half of the last century, the rebuilding of replacement parts was definitely a job for the repairer. It slowly dwindled with the arrival of casting and fitting by the shaving of big-end bearings and the
indigenous production of broken spring-leaves. However, while before the Second World War, this was a part of normal, everyday life, afterwards it was only because of production losses and the economic deficit.
Nonetheless, the metal-work branch remained, right up into the 1970s, the most important labour section.
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