At the same time that the outside world was making a sensation because of the imminent launch of the Ford Model E, several large automakers in the United States also reluctantly gathered together to discuss how to deal with Ford's step. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Everyone didn't expect that Henry Ford, who had been kicked out of the car market, would come back again. And this time, Ford didn't just come back alone, he also brought a lot of money.

Instead of looking for any commercial organization to inject capital, they completed the construction of the new company on their own, but the manufacturers heard that Henry Ford only held 20 percent of the shares in the new Ford company, and the remaining 80 percent of the shares were a name they had never heard of.

For Henry Ford's family background, they car giants also know a little bit about it, if Henry Ford did not get capital injection from the outside world, it would never be possible to develop the company to the current situation.

However, the registration information they found with the government confirmed their suspicion that Henry Ford did receive the capital injection, and it was a $3 million injection.

Three million dollars, what can be done in the United States in this era? Well, the Ford plant, which produces 300,000 cars a year, cost less than a million, and that includes enough land to build four times the current area.

Behind Ford, there is a master who is not bad for money, not only for Ford to inject a lot of capital, but also to give him a lot of support in research and development.

But is a car really that cheap? At least, at present, they don't believe that as far as these auto industry giants can't reduce costs to $3,000, how did Ford do it?

"Is it because Ford has adopted a completely new manufacturing process?" Henry Leland said with a tight frown.

Henry Leland is the founder of Cadillac, in the early stage, he and Henry Ford are collaborators, that is, after Henry Ford was forced to leave the Ford company, Henry Leland changed the company's name to Cadillac, and Henry Ford was poached to China by Wang Sirui.

Although the relationship between the two has been stiff due to their cooperative relationship, some of the people below are still connected, and he once heard some managers in the company mention Henry Ford's new assembly line technology.

It's just that at that time, Henry Leland felt that doing so would increase production costs, for example, a large amount of equipment was needed, and a large number of workers were needed, which would increase the cost of equipment and workers, so Henry Leland didn't care about it at that time.

"A completely new manufacturing process? What is that? David Dunbabek asked, and several other giants also expressed doubts.

"The use of assembly line production, a car according to each step to distribute the process, each post only do one process, after the completion of their own process, the next post will be responsible for the next process." Henry Leland said.

David Dunbarbek's eyes suddenly lit up, this production method suddenly sounded like it would increase costs, but in fact? If the workers are all familiar with their jobs, they will be able to complete their work in a very short time.

If everyone could double their man-hours, the man-hours of this car would be doubled. In the same time, although the number of workers has increased, the output has also increased exponentially.

Moreover, in this way, they can not be more vigorous than training workers, only need to be led by the old employee with the new person, tell him what to do in this position, at most a month, the new person will become an old employee.

It's like cooking, at the beginning, because you are not proficient, you don't know what to do when, but when you become proficient, the cooking time will be doubled, and the quality will increase exponentially.

"I think it's a good way to produce, and we should go to the Ford plant and have a tour." David Dunbabek says he's realised the benefits of doing so.

It's just that Buick still hasn't clearly judged how terrifying the assembly line production used by Ford is.

Originally, it only took 12.5 man-hours to manufacture a car, but because of Wang's quality control requirements for Ford, the Ford factory had to add several processes, and the consequence of this was that the man-hours were increased to 15 man-hours, and the cost was increased by about 50 US dollars.

However, compared with Hyundai's cars, which generally require more than 200 man-hours to manufacture, Henry Ford still occupies a large production capacity advantage.

In addition, the assembly line greatly reduces the production cost, the average cost of a car is less than 500 US dollars, and after the later workers are proficient, after the technological reform, this cost will continue to decrease.

Although the Ford Model T was not as luxurious as the current Model E in history, the humble version of the car at that time was still able to cause a sensation in the world.

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"Car! Cart! I want to buy a car! Wells waved the money in his hand, and it was clear that it was something he had saved up on a daily basis.

Early this morning, just after dawn, Wells rushed to the door of the 4S store with banknotes, but in front of Wells, there were already nearly 100 people waiting in line.

As the eight o'clock approached, more and more people came to buy cars, and the scene, which had been able to maintain order, suddenly became chaotic.

No one is queuing anymore, because if they are in line, none of them know when they will wait for them and how long they will have to wait for them.

Wells squeezed forward with all his might, because of the tall and large number of people, so it was easy to squeeze to the front, but the 4S store was not open, and even, some of the employees of the 4S store were squeezed outside and could not enter the store.

John didn't work today, but came to the 4S store in casual clothes, with a huge amount of $1,200 on his body, and wanted to be the first to enter the 4S store to pick up his car, but after coming here, John was a little stupid, this scene was too hot.

The scene was rapidly gathering with an average of nearly 100 people per minute, and after a while, the road outside was surrounded by water, and even affected many citizens who passed normally.

"Damn, how can there be so many people?" John couldn't help cursing, although he asked for leave today, but once there was a problem here, John, the top boss, could not escape the blame, faintly, John felt a little unhappy in his heart.

Immediately afterward, John saw Wells, who was crowded at the front of the line, waving a banknote.

"No, we must not let the situation continue like this, we must control the situation as soon as possible." John thought secretly in his heart, and then, while shouting loudly to identify himself, he squeezed to the front of the line.

"Hey Wells, listen to me, now I need your help, you need to get to the police station as soon as possible and tell everyone to come here immediately to maintain order, otherwise there will be problems here. Also, tell the director to ask him to apply for police support from other districts. John said to Wells.

"****, I'm not going, what if I leave my car?" Wells was a little unhappy in his heart, and finally squeezed to the front, at this time to go, am I a fool?

"I promise you, you'll get your own car today." John attached himself to Wells's ear and whispered, "I'm friends with Store Manager George, I'll go in and tell him later, let him leave you a car, he promised to leave me one yesterday, if you don't buy it today, then I'll pass on my one to you." ”

"Really?" Wells' eyes lit up.

Although he is at the front of the queue now, what if the police come and ask them to line up again? At that time, Wells was not necessarily at the front, and with so many people, it was one thing whether they could buy it.

If you can go through the back door and make sure that you can buy a car today, then I believe that countless people will be willing to help with this and get closer to Sheriff John.

John nodded.

"I'll go right away." Wells put the money back in his pocket, clutching it tightly with one hand, and quickly squeezed out of the crowd and ran in the direction of the police station.

About half an hour later, more than 20 police officers were late, looking at the scene in front of them, these more than 20 police officers couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, one of them immediately returned to the police station, he needed to report the situation here to the chief.

After all, Wells only spoke on behalf of Sheriff John, and no one knows if what Wells said was said by Sheriff John himself? The Commissioner must confirm the situation at the scene before he can apply for police support from other police districts.

Of the remaining people, more than a dozen people quickly squeezed towards the door, while the rest maintained order all around.

With the arrival of the police, the situation at the scene finally began to be slowly controlled, and several thieves were arrested, and a total of tens of thousands of dollars were recovered from them, all of which were stolen from the car buyer.

Wells also returned to his original position with the police, and at this time, no one in front dared to stop Wells.

Most of the people standing in front had seen Wells and knew that he was the one sent by Sheriff John to inform the officers, so who would dare to stop Wells at this time?

John didn't even need to go to George to intercede for him, he just had to put Wells first and make sure that no one else had any objections.

Under the command of Sheriff John, the rush of thousands of people began to line up in an orderly manner, and the line was even more miles away.

As soon as eight o'clock arrived, the 4S store opened on time, and there was no panic at the scene because of the maintenance of the police. (To be continued.) )