Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 463 Automobiles and Iron Bull 350

The second largest export product produced by Queensland is a series of diesel machinery, including supporting marine diesel engines, civilian diesel engines, agricultural diesel engines and self-propelled tractors. The annual export reached 176,000 sets, surpassing the shipbuilding industry. second.

As a result, Australia General Machinery Company has also developed into a world machinery industry giant with tens of thousands of employees and dozens of supporting factories. There are more than 170,000 employees related to the supporting system. It is ranked first in the world machinery industry with Cargill Steam Machinery Company of the United States. The two, monopolize the entire industrial chain of diesel engine production and have an undisputed dominance in this emerging industrial field.

The Queensland Earl family of Australia has thousands of patents on diesel engine production, covering almost every innovative invention, and has more than ten key mechanical laboratories located in the United States, Europe, and Queensland. It invests heavily in research and development in this field every year, leading the machinery The industry develops the world trend.

As small and medium-sized tractors are selling well in the world, various agricultural machinery such as rotary tillage, seeding, deep plowshare, matching wear-resistant blades, seedling transplanting, field harrowing and other agricultural machinery have sprung up in the world. Hundreds of large and small agricultural machinery manufacturing companies have emerged.

  Hundreds of people on a large scale, more than a dozen people on a small scale, and even family workshops, have found their own living space in the development boom.

  In particular, it is worth mentioning that Goodyear Rubber Co., Ltd. was established in May 1882. The rubber radial tires produced for 4-wheel tractors have been sold to the world with low prices, high quality and excellent performance, and established the leading position and industry standard in the tire industry.

  1885 year

After years of rapid development, Goodyear Rubber Company has become the largest user of natural rubber exports in the British Straits Governor’s Office. It imports 7,600 tons of natural rubber each year, which strongly urges rubber plantations in Malaya to further expand production and cope with growing Demand gap.

In order to solve the acute human resource conflict, the British also focused their attention on the northern populous country Manchuria. A new wave of Chinese immigration has appeared in the jurisdiction of the Straits Governor’s Mansion. This is strongly promoted by the local whites and Chinese plantation owners. From the market, from the interests.

  This change was unexpected by Red Fort, and it is cautiously welcomed.

  As the “protector of Chinese overseas immigrants”, the Earl of Queensland has specially strengthened the staff of the agency in Singapore, and has been in close contact with the British Straits Governor’s House, urging local planters to safeguard the interests of Chinese workers and treat workers equally.

  Goodyear Rubber's products are not limited to tractor tires, but also developed into a series of bicycle tires, which are produced for Phoenix bicycles and are also popular products in Europe and the United States.

Relying on the high-quality rubber products of Goodyear Rubber Company, Songjiang City has developed a series of small and medium-sized rubber products factories, ranging from rubber rain boots, ponchos, rubber tablecloths, rubber mattresses to high temperature resistant rubber gaskets and rubber tubes for diesel engines. , Found its position in the market, and developed step by step.

  This fully proves the shrewd minds of the Chinese in doing business, and it will shine brightly with a little sunshine.

  A major product drives an industry group. The prosperity of the diesel machinery industry promotes the development of Queensland's machinery processing industry. It has achieved catch-up in just seven or eight years, and it has gone hand in hand. Now it has surpassed in some production areas.

The development of Goodyear Rubber Company has driven the downstream series of rubber product manufacturing, and also the upstream raw material production. In Shangri-La and Borneo, a large number of natural rubber plantations are in the early stage of afforestation. Some rubber trees have been three years old and are lush and long. At a height of five or six meters, Mi Mi Zaza can't see the end at a glance.

  Some rubber saplings have just been planted, and it will take a long growth period of seven or eight years to mature rubber tapping. This is a gradual process.

  Natural rubber plantation, as a key project of Hongbao’s economic strategy, has invested heavily in development, with an annual investment of up to one million pounds, solving the livelihood of more than 200,000 immigrants, and is a key economic crop for the development plan of Qixing Town in the Qingshui River Basin.

  Similarly, it is also a key economic crop of the Jinshui River Basin Development Project, which requires continuous and vigorous investment.

  Cars, heavy tractors, series light tractors and diesel engines are all inseparable from the development of the rubber industry.

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  Foresighted people in the upper class of Queensland have put out funds to invest in private rubber plantations, and many large-scale partnership plantations have appeared, and more Chinese immigrants have been settled, which has become a beautiful landscape of regional development.

  History changed in 1876

  The Australian General Machinery Company, which is absolutely controlled by the Queensland Earl family, has successively launched two blockbuster products to test the European and American markets, a 4-wheel family luxury car and a Tieniu 350 heavy tractor.

  In today's society at the end of the 19th century, these two blockbuster products can be described as two king bombs. As soon as they appeared, they attracted rave reviews.

It is the first to launch a mature four-wheel car product, with a beautiful streamlined shape, which looks like a luxurious convertible carriage, steering wheel steering structure, two-stage transmission, with manual copper bells, gas horse lights, gilded rearview mirrors, and exquisite clocks. And comfortable natural latex seats, covered with Australian high-quality first layer cowhide.

  As a test product, the "Crown" brand car is made by hand from the carriage to the seat bag, and the annual output is only more than a hundred cars, which will inevitably lead to the high price of fine craftsmanship, which is not a high-end gadget that the general public can afford.

  Luxury four-wheeled cars appeared in London and Paris at the same time. They became a hot topic in major newspapers and media for the first time, igniting the keen interest of upper-class aristocrats, and one after another expressed their willingness to order such an expensive thing.

A "Crown" brand car, asking for £4,800, needs additional extras for personality, such as gold-plated pedals, equipped with a hard roof, silver-plated reflective gas lamps (more beautiful and cool), and upgraded cowhide package Steering wheel, customized personalized leather package storage box, upgrade manual wiper, etc., each is expensive, and the top configuration can even double the price to more than tens of thousands of pounds.

  Such a high price, the "Crown" brand car that appeared in the first place can only become a high-end plaything for the nobles and big capitalists, and most people don't dare to care about it.

  At this price, you can buy a 5-bedroom luxury apartment in the West End of London, and you can hire 300 American workers for a year.

  General Machinery Company took the lead in launching a new era of "Iron Bull 350" to replace heavy steam tractors. It first landed in New York and Lyon. After a short period of test marketing and word-of-mouth fermentation, it is bound to usher in a huge explosion of demand.

In agricultural production or people’s travel needs, heavy tractors and four-wheeled vehicles are unavoidable products of social progress. The emergence of these machines represents technological development and heralds the progress of the times. Under the strong promotion of Queensland, it is more than in the original history. Appeared earlier.

  This is not strange

  The development of the steam industrial revolution to this day has provided the soil for the survival and development of automobiles and heavy tractors. All that is needed is a gentle push from the back to make it available earlier. This is what Queensland has made.

  The replacement of animal power by mechanical power is the demand of the development of the times, and it is not shifted by human will.

  Take a French heavy-duty freight four-wheeled carriage as an example. With two horses, it can carry up to 4 to 5 thousand pounds of goods, and the daily transportation distance does not exceed 60 kilometers.

The cost of raising these two strong horses in Europe will not be less than £240 a year. The horses must be fed and eaten well, and at least one spare horse must be replaced, accompanied by a diligent coachman. , The total annual expenditure is not less than 350 pounds.

A Tieniu 350 tractor can easily tow 30,000 pounds of goods. On roads with good road conditions, the daily transport distance is more than 200 kilometers (20 kilometers per hour, running for 10 hours a day). All that is required is mechanical maintenance and refueling. Diesel fuel injection, cooling water only.

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  The efficiency of a Tieniu 350 tractor is 20 times that of the former. As long as the machinery is intact, it can work without sleep. The efficiency is far better than that of a heavy-duty carriage.

  Such a simple account can be easily calculated.

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