Complex sentence: Companies such as Henry Ford developed manufacturing processes that soon made the village wheelwright obsolete, added to the onset of two world wars the trade soon went into decline and was very rare by the 1960s almost extinct by the year 2000.
Split into simpler sentences: Companies such as Henry Ford developed manufacturing processes that soon made the village wheelwright obsolete. With the onset of two world wars, the trade soon went into decline and was very rare by the 1960s and almost extinct by the year 2000.