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Chapter 1373 Bicycles and Cars
Bicycles have been in the capital for several years, but they are expensive, and only wealthy people can afford them.People who can ride bicycles on the streets of the capital are either rich or expensive.

It was not until recently that the shortage of rubber was finally resolved after obtaining sufficient reserves of natural rubber from plantations in Hainan Island and Indonesia, and the government officially established the first bicycle shop and began to produce bicycles on an assembly line.

Chu Yun is also very concerned about this matter. After all, bicycles can facilitate travel, improve the living standards of residents, and stimulate economic development.

A large amount of silver flows into the country from all over the world, which can easily lead to inflation, and it is necessary to have enough commodities to absorb the wealth obtained.

"We made an extremely important change to the original bicycle. We developed pneumatic tires, which fundamentally changed the riding performance of the bicycle and solved the problem of vibration." The president of the bicycle shop introduced their new bicycle to Chu Yun. The product.

The bicycles at this time had steel wire spokes, roller bearings, foot brakes, springs, chains and other structures, and basically had the structures and parts that bicycles in Chu Yun's previous world should have!The emergence of pneumatic tires provides a novel idea of ​​industrial product design!

"How long has the factory been established?" Chu Yun didn't remember much about the bicycle shop because he needed to pay attention to the progress of many projects.

A few years ago, there was no specialized bicycle store, but a certain factory arranged a team to conduct research on bicycles. Over the past few years, only a few hundred bicycles have been produced sporadically.For a huge market, it's a drop in the bucket.

Of course, the scarcity of bicycles makes people in the capital feel that rare things are more expensive. Owning a bicycle is an enviable thing, a symbol of status!This has led to Beijing being able to accept bicycles as a new thing, and it is very fanatical!

"This year we have developed pneumatic tires and started preparing to build a factory. We also need to contact steel factories and rubber factories to produce special raw materials for us, and then our bicycle factory produces the parts we need to facilitate the production of complete vehicles and Make repairs." The president of the bicycle shop proudly said to Chu Yun.

Maybe after Chu Yun allocated funds to him to research bicycles, he gradually forgot about the bicycle industry because of other things, but he led a group of workers to always strive for this goal.

The advent of pneumatic rubber tires made bicycles finally commercially viable.Therefore, he applied to the Ministry of Households for funding to open a bicycle shop, and now he has a factory.

Chu Yun vaguely remembered that the Ministry of Household Affairs had indeed mentioned this matter at the six-ministration meeting, but the amount was not very large compared with other major projects, so he was not deeply impressed.

"We are preparing to produce the first batch of new bicycles in winter. We will release 300 bicycles to Beijing in the spring, and get back the funds approved by the Ministry of Households as soon as possible. In the past, when we were researching bicycles in steel factories, we produced scattered bicycles. , I don’t have my own name, the employees of our bicycle store have discussed it, and I want to have the cheek to ask you, Mr. Junzhu, for a good omen name as our bicycle brand.” The president rubbed his hands nervously and said.

Sign your bike?Chu Yun couldn't think of it for a while, so he could only have a flash of inspiration: "How about the Phoenix card? The king of birds, it has auspicious omens, and it also means flying through the clouds and riding the fog."

"Phoenix brand! We will use this signboard!" the president of the bicycle shop excitedly said.

"Bicycles are a vast market. If the products are reliable, they can be popularized not only in the capital, but also in all provinces of the empire. They can also be exported to the West in the future." Chu Yun is naturally very optimistic about the future of the bicycle business. .

Before the advent of cars, many people were still happy to use bicycles for transportation.

Speaking of cars, Chu Yun took some officials to Daimler's car factory.

If the bicycle shop has a lot of technical content, then the industrial technical content of the car factory that Daimler spent a lot of energy on designing and the early cars using internal gas is even more amazing.

Daimler's car factory moved out of the city along with the engine research factory, where there is a lot of land to build a car factory.

This is a three-story factory building made of cement.

When Chu Yun came to the three-story factory building, he was a little surprised by the scale of the place. The car is preparing for commercialization!

"The first floor is for processing large parts such as cylinder blocks and crankshafts, the second floor is for small parts, and the third floor is for final assembly." Daimler actively took Chu Yun to inspect the automobile factory and introduced the situation of the automobile factory to him.

Unlike the diesel engine team led by Diesel, which has serious structural strength problems, Daimler's team has made considerable progress in the field of gasoline engines, and is trying to commercialize the results of gasoline engines-cars.

Chu Yun saw more than a dozen engines, large and small, parked on the first floor of the workshop, as well as many engineers and workers.

"These are high-speed gasoline engines, please come here, this is our new finished car. The engine is in the front, the passengers are seated in rows at the back, equipped with clutch, transmission and rear drive shaft..." Daimler said Watching Chu Yun and the others see a new kind of car.

Not a few years ago, Daimler showed Chu Yun the first four-wheeled vehicle. At that time, Chu Yun operated it himself in front of the people in the capital.Now Daimler has developed a car that is more in line with modern characteristics.

"How much is the estimated annual output?" The car is a good car, but it depends on the production capacity.

"It is expected to produce at least 500 vehicles per year in five years' time," Daimler said.

After five years, an annual output of 500 cars... This kind of car production is still a workshop, far from being a factory!

Chu Yun thought of Ford, which invented the Model T car. The Model T car they produced was fast and cheap.

It's just that there is no way to use the system to bring Ford here, otherwise Model T cars can be mass-produced on the assembly line.

"Master, are you not satisfied with our current progress?" Daimler found that Chu Yun did not show a very excited expression, and thought that there was something about his car factory that he was not satisfied with.

"No, it's pretty good here." Chu Yun comforted.

There is no way, his vision from later generations is too high, and he always wants to produce a torrent of steel on the assembly line.

In fact, even if Ford is called out now, it may not be able to form an assembly line. When Ford designed the Model T car, it was almost ten years after Daimler's prototype car. Many parts were still purchased, and in this world , All parts are self-sufficient.

(End of this chapter)