On February 15, 1898, the weather was clear. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When he left Huntelaar at noon, John's face was full of happy smiles. With the arrival of Dewey and a group of teachers specializing in pedagogy to New York, Huntelaar Elementary School underwent a sea change. Although it was impossible for Dewey to teach elementary school students directly, he also put a lot of energy into using Huntelaar Elementary School as a testing ground, which can be seen directly from the children.

The number of students enrolled has been increasing recently.

Of course, the most gratifying thing for John is the change in the young students. The third batch of young students, who had just arrived in New York, were warmly welcomed by the senior brothers, especially the first batch of students, who had been here for two years, and with John's investment at any cost, both the language and all aspects of the situation have become "modern".

Children are the strongest in their ability to learn, and what they lack is just an environment.

After leaving school, John came to Huntelaar Motors without stopping. This time, however, John did not go to the company's manager's office, but went directly to the production floor, where Taylor, the company's actual manager, and a brand-new car were waiting for him......

"It's still ugly!"

The first time he saw the car, John subconsciously grinned.

You can't expect the people and the future of the late 19th century to be an aesthetic point of view, and with the technological level of the era, it is difficult to make that kind of streamlined body. In fact, if it weren't for John's appearance, the cars of this year would still be open-topped, one wheel is big and the other is small, and all of them add up to two people......

However, the car in front of him really does not meet John's aesthetics.

The boxy shell, stout tires, and small cabin space all indicate that the comfort of this car may not be much improved compared to the Aurora II. If you consider that the launch was to compete with the Aurora III of General Motors, to be honest, John really didn't like the competitiveness of his own company - he had seen Bentz's Aurora III idea before, and it looked much more beautiful than the thing in front of him.

"Completely our own design?"

After a moment of silence, John suddenly asked.

"Of course!"

A young white man of thirty-five or sixteen years old nodded vigorously and said excitedly: "Sir, this car is designed by us from head to toe...... Of course, a lot of your patents are used, but I can assure you that this car has nothing to do with Aurora II other than those that cannot be bypassed! ”

"Good, that's enough!"

His eyes lit up slightly, and John nodded in satisfaction.

Compared with Benz and others in Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as General Motors, North America's Huntelaar Automobile Company is indeed still a little immature. Although we already have enough talent, there is too much experience to compete with GM directly. However, John didn't pay much attention to this, because he knew very well what was most important now, and what the designed and built car could bring to Huntelaar Motors.

At the end of the day, John didn't care about the car market in 1898!

Although John is not a professional, he has occasionally seen some content on the history of automobile development on the Internet, such as in another world, by 1905, the global production of automobiles was less than 30,000, and for example, at that time, there were more than 300 automobile companies in France alone, with an annual output of 17,000, and the average of each company was 50.

In this world, from the invention of the first automobile by Benz to the present, there are forty automobile companies in North America alone, many of which are run by big names such as Morgan and Carnegie, but how many can be compared with General Motors and Huntelaar Motors?

Truth be told, very few.

Automobile manufacturing in these years is very simple to say, but if you think about it carefully, it is also a system engineering, and you don't want to build a good car without long-term accumulation. Therefore, John does not have high requirements for his own company, and slowly accumulates technology. Of course, more importantly, the cars of this era are too expensive, and they are not affordable for ordinary people!

So for his own lineage, John is really not in a hurry.

Since the day it was founded, John has not taken dividends from Huntelaar Automobile Company or anything, and all profits are used to increase personnel income, and then invested in research and development. He has always believed that the progress of modern industrial technology is made with money, and a genius is definitely not as good as a research team of ten people, and the R&D department of Huntelaar Automobile Company now has more than 120 people, which is more than twice that of General Motors!

And......

Looking at the young white man in front of him, John smiled slightly and said, "Henry, do you think our car is worth mass production?" ”

"This ......"

The face of the young white man named Henry changed, and a look of loss flashed in his eyes. Of course, he understood what John meant, and knew that if the car he presided over designed was compared with the new product that GM was about to launch, he was afraid that there would still be a gap. But if you lock it in the warehouse, to be honest, he is not reconciled!

"The best choice is to produce the third generation of Aurora!"

At this time, Taylor next to him suddenly spoke: "Although you have already sold most of the shares, the contract you signed with General Motors back then is still valid. In other words, we can use the new technology and design of General Motors and build the same car as them! ”

In Taylor's opinion, it was very uneconomical to produce a car designed by Henry.

But after nodding at Taylor, John's gaze returned to the young white man: "Henry? Mr. Ford, what is your opinion? ”

"I ......"

Open your mouth, Henry? Ford only felt a heavy mountain suddenly weigh down!

He resigned from Edison a few years ago because of interest, and then came to Huntelaar Motors. After studying in Germany for a few years, Ford became the chief designer on his own. With the full support of Mr. Huntelaar, Henry and his hundreds of engineers designed the car, and naturally hoped to bring it to market. But to be honest, if he competed with the GM that he studied on, he didn't have any confidence at all!

Henry now? Ford, not the guy who designed the Model T and the assembly line.

But looking at John, who is always smiling in front of him? Mr. Huntelaar, Henry? Ford suddenly gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Huntelaar, I think we should produce this car of our own design......"

……

John was in a happy mood when he left the car factory.

Can you recruit the car king Henry? Ford can only be regarded as a windfall, and John knows very well that even if he is willing to give Ford a considerable stake in return, the other party may not be able to work for Huntelaar Automobile Company all the time. After all, no one can say when such a heroic figure will open his own factory in the future.

However, John is extremely satisfied with Ford's performance.

After several years of training by General Motors, Ford's current level is definitely first-class, and its courage is much stronger than Taylor, and it directly asks for mass production of cars of its own design -- but Taylor is a management expert, and it is still not the same as Ford's type of entrepreneur.

Of course, John agreed to this request.

It is true that there is a cooperation agreement with General Motors, but John is not the kind of naïve child, and he knows that with the reduction of his shares, it is impossible to get all the technology smoothly in the future. So a few years ago, he was ready to train a large number of engineers and skilled workers, and he was able to complete the accumulation of technology while the automobile market was not particularly large. Anyway, there is not much to say about the technology in these years, and it will be a simple one in the eyes of future people!

At most, it's just a little bit of money.

After ordering the start of small-scale mass production of the newly designed car, John began to seriously consider the issue of industrial assembly lines. Although the time is still a little early, it is not so easy to design an assembly line, and it is not a mistake to prepare early. But what John didn't expect was that on this day, a major event occurred on thousands of miles that affected the whole of America...... (To be continued.) )