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Chapter 126 How the Truck Was Made

The full name of K31 is Karabiner-31, which means 31-type carbine. It fires 7.5x55㎜ GP11-type pointed bullets. It has a large chamber pressure, a fast rate of fire, and high accuracy. It is the main rifle of the Swiss Army.

At the same time, the shooting accuracy of Lee-Enfield, Mosin-Nagant, Springfield and other rotary rear-action rifles is generally 2.5-4.0MOA, while the K31 can reach an exaggerated 1.5MOA.

It is not surprising that Switzerland, which is famous for its precision manufacturing, can make such a precise and deadly rifle, but the straight-pull action has inherent reliability problems, and the manufacturing process is relatively complicated.

The Ming army dismissed this tasteless thing, but Jinyiwei and Yi'an Police Department purchased [-] of them together and installed scopes for special service units, because they did not have to face the muddy environment; Continue to use the self-produced [-]-style rifle as the basis of the sniper rifle.

"How about the trial production of the production line?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, since the day before yesterday, a total of 94 vehicles have been trial-produced in three days, and [-] vehicles have passed the inspection. During this period, a total of one-fifth of the defective parts and components were returned..."

A group of people have arrived at the final assembly plant at this moment. The main structure of the truck is placed at intervals on the long heavy conveyor belt, and the tires are hung on the transmission cable in mid-air next to it.

However, the assembly lines are now at a standstill, and production has not resumed since yesterday evening when I got off work.

Zhu Liqie walked to the side of the conveyor belt, turned his head and asked, "How long will it take for this situation? If it is officially put into production in the future, the output may be stable?"

An engineer clapped his hands and replied: "Now the scrap rate of parts and components is not low, and it needs to be debugged and familiarized with for a period of time. After everything is normal, the theoretical daily output is about 75 vehicles, and the annual output is about [-]; if Overtime, it can reach as many as [-] vehicles."

"This output is still less than many car factories in Europe and the United States. Hmm...may continue to manufacture now?"

"Going back to Your Highness, I probably have to wait for a while."

Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to observe it with his own eyes, everyone naturally wants to let him do so, anyway, they will come step by step.

So under the organization of managers and stewards, the employees went to their respective posts one after another, and the blowers, motors, hammers, conveyor belts, etc. were all started one after another.

After a while, under the leadership of the branch manager, Zhu Liqie and his party came to the foundry.

Before entering here, you can feel the heat wave blowing on your face. The cupola has not stopped, and the workers inside are shouting loudly at this moment.

"It's time, it's time to poke Feng's eye, hurry over!"

"It's going to come out!"

In the furnace, the coke at the bottom is burning, and the huge heat seems to melt everything, and a series of physical and chemical reactions are happening inside.

After a while, hot yellow-white molten iron gushed out of the tap hole, then flowed down the trough into the barrel-shaped ladle, and was then pulled up by the hook and sent to the foundry next door.

The sand casting molds have already been prepared, and several workers not far away are constantly making casting molds with shovels and hammers.

Naturally, the huge molten iron ladle cannot be moved by manpower, so it was tilted and poured some molten iron into a smaller bucket, and then two workers picked it up with large tongs and walked steadily to a sand casting mold on the ground , slowly pouring molten iron into it...

Here is the scene of the foundry, and in the forge, the short, thick and loud sound of "dong dong dong" can be heard from a long distance.

Four or five shirtless workers work together to hold a red-hot steel billet with large tongs, stretch it to the huge hammer table, and then forge it continuously and quickly, rotating it while forging to make it become the desired shape...

In this era of undeveloped automated production, many manufacturing processes seem primitive, but this is the case, and even many countries still use this manufacturing method decades later.

Of course, the factory can produce only a part of the parts, such as window glass, wiper blades, tires, engines, etc., are the responsibility of other manufacturers and companies.

A group of people went round and round, and finally returned to the assembly workshop.

The main structure of the truck placed on the heavy-duty conveyor belt stopped every time it passed a "checkpoint", and a dozen workers surrounded it to install parts for it, and the cycle continued.

In this way, the original "skeleton" truck gradually took shape. Zhu Liqie saw the 65-horsepower six-cylinder gasoline engine hanging from the transmission cable in mid-air. When the basically formed truck stopped on the assembly line, the workers They immediately helped to install the engine into the front of the car.

He watched a truck that had been assembled roll off the production line, and then asked: "I have seen your future plans. In addition to building a new truck production line with an annual output of [-] units, there is also a new production line with an annual output of [-] units of tractors." plan?"

"Yes, Your Highness. In fact, the original plan was even more ambitious. It was to open a single workshop and build a large factory with a daily output of 150 vehicles." This time it was a fat manager who answered.

"Oh? Then why cut it in half?"

"Uh... The main reason is that there is not enough skilled workers, and the good product rate will not increase."

Although his expression remained the same, Zhu Liqie was not satisfied with this answer.

Building a factory and arranging a production line don't mean that if it is done well, it can be done in two years?It is entirely possible to solve the journeyman problem during this time.

"There are never too many trucks. The so-called lack of familiarity leads to a poor yield...it shouldn't be a problem." He said calmly, "Whether it's old and new, or organization training and teaching, try to solve it, understand?"

"Understood, understood, His Highness's intention must be communicated in time, and we... must adjust it."

After staying in the newly-built branch factory of Yangyue Company for nearly two hours, Zhu Liqie, who was satisfied, finally left.

After returning to the palace where he stayed, he paced in the backyard while thinking, and Zhan Shi Wu Zhengren accompanied him.

"The more cars there are, the better. Economic strategy and construction are indispensable. The current world situation is like this..."

"Your Highness, our country started late in this aspect, and it has only improved in the past ten years. There is no rush."

"Of course I know, but I have to be in a hurry right now. I have to work hard for nearly three years." Zhu Li stood upright and said slowly: "I intend to build a large-scale truck assembly workshop, and the location is in Shanghai, which is convenient. ; Then order a large number of component trucks from Ford, Dodge, and General Motors in the United States and Canada, and assemble them after they arrive. I am afraid that financial affairs will need to be fine-tuned, and the money must be drawn from some aspect.”

Wu Zhengren, who was a little surprised, was stunned for two seconds before hesitatingly replied: "But the proposed financial affairs should not be greatly changed. I don't know what the 'large number' your Highness is talking about?"

In fact, due to the needs of modernization, Daming has a very large demand for trucks. When self-production cannot meet the needs, some trucks are actually imported every year.

"For two years, 15 vehicles."

"This seems to be too much... The automobile companies in the United States and Canada mainly focus on civilian cars, and the output of trucks is not much. Besides, the money..."

(End of this chapter)