Rise of Australia

Chapter 92 The Gift of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (please subscribe!)

November 1901, 11.This day is an extraordinary day for the Australian industry.

The first is Benz's automobile factory. With the joint efforts of Benz and Diesel, after half a year of reconstruction, the world's first automobile factory using assembly line production technology was finally established.

Although there are some differences compared with the more mature automobile assembly lines established by Ford in the future, the modified factory has already shown very good results in terms of saving labor costs and reducing production time.

Originally, to make a car with similar performance to Victor Deya, the factory had to mobilize at least ten excellent workers and work overtime for nearly a week to complete.

Among other things, the wages of these ten or so outstanding workers for more than a week must be worth at least thirty pounds.

If the cost of making various mechanical parts is added, the cost of the car will instantly reach more than 160 pounds, and if the negative review rate is included, the cost of each car will be at least [-] pounds.

Here comes the question, is the price of a car that costs 160 pounds set at less than [-] pounds?
The answer is really not high.According to the original scale of Benz Company, although it is the largest automobile factory in Germany, its annual output is less than [-] vehicles.

Even if each car can earn thirty pounds, the two hundred cars can only earn six thousand pounds at most.

After deducting various taxes and other incidental expenses, the company can only obtain a profit of less than five thousand pounds at most.

The most important thing is that even if Benz sets the price of the car very low and the profit is very meager, few people can afford expensive cars.

The most important factor is that the car has not yet developed its corresponding market even though it has shown great potential.

Fortunately, the modified car factory has significantly improved this shortcoming.

According to Benz's estimation, there are three aspects that have changed the most in the new factory. First, the construction time of automobiles has been greatly shortened.

Benz's car factory in Germany had a total of more than 300 employees before, and the car output was less than 200 cars per year.

In contrast, the scale of the automobile factory has not expanded, but has become smaller. It only has more than 200 employees, but the estimated output has reached an astonishing 2000 vehicles per year.

This is the huge change that the production method of the assembly line has brought to the automobile industry.The workers have changed from being responsible for each module of the car to only being responsible for the production and installation of one of the modules.

This will lead to workers becoming more and more proficient at their jobs, and parts will be produced and installed faster and faster.

The second change is the unification of auto parts.

The previous production method would result in different workers for each car, and a large gap in parts between cars, which in disguise increased the difficulty of maintenance.

This is also one of the reasons why people can't afford such expensive items as cars. The maintenance price of cars will even rise to the same level as the price in just a few years. Unstable cars make him a very expensive item. Luxury.

Now, with the same workers producing the same type of parts, the same type of parts become more uniform and easier to maintain. Replacement of parts can also become one of the main maintenance methods for new cars.

The third change is that the cost of the car has been greatly reduced.

By producing more cars with less labor, the cost of labor per car is drastically reduced.

In the original manual production method, the labor cost of each car was at least [-] pounds.

Now after changing to the assembly line production method, the labor cost of each car has been reduced to less than three pounds.

At the same time, it is precisely because of the second change that the error rate of car assembly has also been greatly reduced, reducing the cost of the car in disguise.

According to Benz's estimate, the production cost of a new car is between 120 pounds and [-] pounds, and as workers become familiar with and improve assembly line production, the cost can be further reduced.

After all, this is just Benz and Diesel's initial attempt at assembly line based on Arthur's suggestion.

It is already very good to be able to do this now, at least the production cost has been greatly reduced, and the production speed has been effectively accelerated.

After learning the news, Arthur was still surprised and satisfied.However, the cost of more than one hundred pounds is still too high, and there is still more room for improvement in the new production method.

You know, the final price of the Model T is only 260 US dollars, which is only about [-] pounds in pounds.

This means that the production cost of the car can be reduced to at least 50 pounds, and the current Mercedes-Benz is still some distance away.

Arthur's order is to continue to study the production method of the assembly line and make improvements.

As long as it can keep the production cost of the car below eighty pounds, it can go into production.

The Model T originally sold for $825, or £165.If Mercedes-Benz can keep production costs below £80, it can make a lot of money at £150.

On the basis of studying large-scale assembly line assembly technology, Arthur felt that the scale of the Mercedes-Benz car factory also needed to be expanded.

As the selling price of automobiles decreases, the potential and market of automobiles gradually expand, and even a huge market of 30 million vehicles can be reached within 2000 years.

If Mercedes-Benz can seize the opportunity, it may not be impossible to create a sales record for T-cars in history and create a huge car empire.

Therefore, the production of automobiles must also keep up in order to carve up the huge automobile market as soon as possible, at least to occupy the European market.

If the initial success of the assembly line is the first piece of good news, then the return of the diplomatic mission is the second piece of good news.

Nearly three months have passed since the departure of the diplomatic mission.Under Arthur's expectation, the fleet finally arrived at Sydney Harbor smoothly and brought good news to Arthur.

The first is the official signing of the indigenous plan.

This was a plan that had already been discussed, and after Queen Wilhelmina signed her name, the treaty officially began to be implemented.

This is good news for the development of Australia, and the problem of poor manpower in Australia has basically been completely solved.

The second piece of good news is something wrapped in red cloth on the transport ship.Because the whole body was tightly wrapped, Arthur didn't know what was inside.

But judging from the protruding long pipe, the wrapped thing should be a cannon.

According to Princess Louise, it was a gift from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.Because of the signing of the treaty and the exchange of ambassadors, the Kingdom of the Netherlands also generously presented this gift, and judging from the solemn appearance of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the value of this gift is definitely not small.

　If you are not good at emotional matters, you will not poison everyone.important for national development

　　
　
(End of this chapter)