Chapter 92 Gift From the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Please Subscribe!)

November 23, 1901. This day was an extraordinary day for Australian industry.

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

Although there are some differences compared to the more mature car assembly line created by Ford later, the performance of the modified factory has been very good in terms of saving labor costs and reducing production time.

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

Apart from anything else, the salary of more than ten excellent workers for more than a week is worth at least 30 pounds.

If the cost of making various mechanical parts is added, the cost of the car instantly reaches more than 100 pounds. If the scrapped defective products are counted, the cost of each car is at least 160 pounds.

The question is, is the price of a car costing 160 pounds set at less than 200 pounds high?

The answer is really not high. According to the original scale of Benz Company, although it is the largest automobile factory in Germany, the annual output is less than 200.

Even if each car can earn 30 pounds, the 200 cars can only earn 6,000 pounds at most.

After deducting various taxes and other miscellaneous expenses, the company can only make less than 5,000 pounds in profit 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 developed a corresponding market despite its huge potential.

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

According to Benz's estimate, there are three biggest changes in the new factory. One is that the construction time of the car has been greatly shortened.

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

In contrast, the scale of the car factory has not expanded, but has become smaller, with only more than 200 employees, but the estimated production has reached an astonishing 2,000 cars per year.

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

This will make workers more and more proficient in their positions, and the production and installation speed of parts will become faster and faster.

The second change is the unification of auto parts.

The previous production method will result in different workers producing each car, and the parts between cars will be very different, which will increase the difficulty of maintenance in disguise.

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

Now, with the same workers producing the same type of parts, the same type of parts have become more unified and easier to repair. Replacing parts can also become one of the main ways to repair new cars.

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

After producing more cars with less labor, the labor cost of each car has been greatly reduced.

The original manual production method cost at least twenty pounds for each car.

Now that the production method has been changed to assembly line, 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, which has reduced the cost of the car in disguise.

According to Benz's estimate, the production cost of the new car is about one hundred pounds to one hundred and twenty pounds, and with the workers' familiarity and improvement of assembly line production, the cost can be further reduced.

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

It is very good to be able to do it now. At least it has greatly reduced the production cost and effectively accelerated the production speed.

After hearing 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 fifty pounds in British pounds.

This means that the production cost of the car can be compressed to at least less than 50 pounds, and the current Mercedes-Benz car is still a long way off.

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

As long as the production cost of the car can be kept below 80 pounds, it can be put into production.

The initial price of the Model T was 825 US dollars, or 165 pounds. If Mercedes-Benz can reduce the production cost to less than 80 pounds, it can make a lot of money even if it is priced at 150 pounds.

Based on the research of large-scale assembly line assembly technology, Arthur felt that it was necessary to expand the scale of the Mercedes-Benz car park.

As the price of the car decreases, the potential and market of the car will gradually expand, and it may even reach a huge market of 20 million vehicles within 30 years.

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

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

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

It has been nearly three months since the departure of the diplomatic delegation. Under Arthur's expectation, the fleet finally arrived at the Sydney Port smoothly and brought good news to Arthur.

The first is the formal signing of the Aboriginal Plan.

This is a plan that has been discussed long ago. After Queen Wilhelmina signed her name, the treaty officially began to be implemented.

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

The second good news is the red cloth wrapped on the transport ship. Because the whole body is tightly wrapped, Arthur does not know what is inside.

But from the protruding long pipe, it can be judged that the wrapped thing should be a cannon.

According to Princess Louise, this is 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 others. National development is more important