A salesman is a professional who engages in selling products or services to customers. Their role typically involves identifying potential clients, presenting offerings, negotiating terms, and closing sales. Successful salesmen often possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a deep understanding of the products they sell. They may work in various industries, including retail, real estate, and B2B sales.
Such people are drapers, clothiers, cloth merchants, or dry goods merchants.
I actuly looked on google to find it, and got interested myself, but no find, but it probaly was the first maker of the first car, the Model T car.