Chapter 211: 211 Coachman
Chapter 211 211 Coachman
“Ding bell! Ding bell!” One of the four phones placed in front of Tang Mo suddenly rang a clear ringtone.
Tang Mo grabbed the phone receiver in front of him and put it to his ear: "It's me, what's the matter?"
"In the assembly workshop of Factory 2, the thing you designed has been manufactured." Matthews' excited voice came over the phone: "It's so great! I never thought that one day I would be able to manufacture it." Such great stuff!”
“I’ll be there right away!” Tang Mo hung up the phone directly.
Then, he grabbed another phone in front of him and ordered: "Get ready, go to Factory No. 2."
Soon, Tang Mo, who arrived at Factory No. 2, saw what he had been thinking about all day and night—a car!
This is the first car in the world, but because it is a design drawing that Tang Mo directly took out, it directly uses a more mature design, which is no longer comparable to the cars of the early era.
Tang Mo established a complete automobile production line as soon as he came up. This production line is the famous Ford automobile production line.
The car Tang Mo is going to take out is also the world's first generation civilian car, the T-car. This kind of car is completely designed for ordinary people, and it is simple in design, high in quality and low in price.
In Tang Mo’s original world, the Ford Company relied on this successful design to win great success. They produced a full 15 million such cars in one go. One can imagine the “superiority” of this kind of car.
In fact, it is indeed superior, because the design of this kind of car is mature and the failure rate is low. It can be said to be the perfect design of early cars.
Of course, it is not all good, because its design is actually very different from modern cars, and it can even be said that driving this kind of car actually requires special training.
First of all, to start this kind of car, you need to use a rocker on the front end of the car to shake it hard. This design is actually common on early cars, so it cannot be said to be a unique design of the T-type car.
If you are not careful with this kind of rocker, you may even injure yourself due to the engine rotating prematurely, so be very careful when starting the car.
In addition, the clutch of the T-type car is a three-speed star clutch, with only two forward gears and one reverse gear, and these three gears are actually controlled by three pedals respectively!
In other words, this car actually has 4 pedals! And none of these four pedals are accelerator control pedals!
The accelerator of this car is next to the steering wheel and is controlled by hand! So the control of this kind of car is completely different from today's car control.
What’s more interesting is that this kind of car can only seat two people. It is a standard small car. Its load capacity and speed are actually very ordinary.
This car has a nearly 3-liter four-cylinder engine that can provide 20 horsepower of traction, allowing the car to theoretically reach a speed of 70 kilometers per hour.
The engine’s fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is about 9 liters. This is actually a very embarrassing number: the early gasoline engines were not strictly made, their performance was actually very ordinary, and their fuel consumption was relatively high.
The fuel tank design of this type of car is also very strange. It relies on gravity to allow gasoline to enter the carburetor. However, the fuel tank of the first-generation Model T car was designed very low, which made it unable to climb when it was short of fuel. If it needs to drive uphill when it is short of fuel, it can only go up in reverse...
So, Tang Mo could only take out the subsequent improved drawings and designed the fuel tank to be between the engine and the driver.
Despite its shortcomings, the emergence of this kind of car did solve Tang Mo's demand for cars. He was finally able to mass-produce cars on a large scale, and then allowed his troops to move faster.
At the same time, he will also save a lot of time. The car can effectively fill the gap in the transportation branch line, allowing him to reach his destination faster.
In fact, the biggest advantage of the Ford Model T is that it uses the assembly line production method, which allows it to be easily manufactured!
A combination of skilled workers can assemble a Ford car within 10 minutes. It also saves materials. These advantages meet Tang Mo's needs.
As long as the car is cheap enough and produced fast enough, he can make more money to improve his car production line and produce better cars!
At this moment, the car is not beautiful at all, but Tang Mo is sure that as long as he needs it, Matthews and others can build him a more luxurious car!
Tang Mo has even chosen his favorite model: Rolls-Royce Silver Phantom 1923! He planned to use this car as his first car. After all, he had no fondness for cheap mass-produced cars like the Model T.
No matter how good the Model T car is, it is just a tool to solve problems, and he must add some surprises to his life and create some romance.
Rolls-Royce's Silver Phantom has extraordinary performance. In 1923, it could rely on its excellent V6 six-cylinder engine to reach a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour.
What’s even more amazing is that at that time, it could ensure that the car would not break down and continue to run at high speed.
Compared to the Model T car that breaks down easily, Rolls-Royce is a truly excellent car and a luxurious existence that can highlight Tang Mo's identity!
"After we have improved it, we can add 2 more seats to this car, or add a compartment that can be used for transportation." Matthews proudly introduced the improvement direction of this T-type car. In his opinion, Tang Mo has already No different than the **** of technology. Personally, he is obviously dissatisfied with the performance of this car: "Theoretically, it can pull a C80 field gun, but it cannot drive off-road, and it cannot drive too fast."
"There is no way for a carriage to pull the C80 field gun off-road, and of course there is no way to pull the C105 howitzer. But we can pull the C105 by connecting two carriages in series..." Parker on the side was a little nervous. He was worried that Tang Mo would also pull the C105. I was dissatisfied with the performance of this car, so I opened my mouth to explain.
"It doesn't matter, we will have a car with more horsepower soon, so don't worry about it!" Tang Mo comforted the nervous Parker and patted him on the shoulder.
After comforting Parker, Tang Mo looked at the T-type car in front of him and asked Matthews: "Now we can think about it, how much should we sell for such a brand-new vehicle?"
“How about 177 gold coins for a car?” Matthews felt that such an outrageous design should earn at least twice the profit anyway.
The cost of producing this car is about 59 gold coins, and it is sold for 177 gold coins, which is actually not expensive.
After all, this thing is the crystallization of technology! It is a precision machine driven by the most advanced gasoline engine! 177 gold coins is much cheaper than a steam engine.
“So, you are okay as a craftsman, but you are still not good at being a businessman.” Tang Mo said to Matthews with a smile.
Then he looked at Harry standing next to him and asked, "What about you, how many gold coins do you think this car should be sold for?"
"I think if you can afford it, it's best to sell it for only 80 gold coins!" Harry thought for a few seconds before answering Tang Mo's question.
Tang Mo laughed loudly, then nodded and said: "After the first batch is produced, we will find ways to reduce the cost. The final price is... 75 gold coins!"
Compared with other competitors, its biggest advantage is that it has no research and development costs and will not make any detours. He can completely reduce the cost to an incredible level according to his personal preferences.
So, in some industries, as long as Tang Mo is willing, he can go his own way and leave others with no way to go.
In the very important manufacturing industry of automobiles, Tang Mo is prepared to do just that—he uses his absolute price advantage to seize the market and defeat competitors who try to copy or catch up!
When the world is full of his cars, his subsequent models will also engulf the entire market, leaving no gaps for other competitors.
The reason why he wants to do this is to delay the time for his opponents to copy him as much as possible, and then allow him more time to set aside sufficient time for oil and other energy sources, as well as subsequent technological breakthroughs.
Now that we have surpassed our opponents technically, we can use the dual advantages of technology and price to completely block our opponents in backward fields.
When competitors like Cyric think about making competing products, they will be disappointed to find that they have no profit at all.
Immediately afterwards, they will fall into the embarrassing cycle of buying instead of building, and renting instead of buying, and they will not be able to catch up with Tang Mo in their lifetime.
"Selling it so cheap?" Matthews was shocked. He thought Tang Mo would make a lot of money with this new means of transportation.
"Is it cheap? If someone copies it, I will sell it for 70 gold coins immediately!" Tang Mo showed an evil smile, like a man-eating monster.
But his smile soon became bright and sunny, because the car was manufactured, which must be good news for him.
So, he walked up to Matthews, patted the dwarf on the shoulder, patted Parker on the shoulder, and then looked at Harry: "Don't be stingy! When the production capacity increases, I will give each of you a car like this." !”
As he spoke, he teased Matthews: "...Maybe you need a driver! Hahaha! I'll find someone to help you drive!"
"Speaking of the driver...Wes!" He looked at Wes, who was standing aside and still looking at the car up and down: "You might have to learn to drive! I need a driver!"
“Driver?” Wes obviously didn’t quite understand the word.
“Car driver!” Tang Mo explained: “It’s almost the same as your current job!”
(End of this chapter)