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

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

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

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

If nothing else, the wages of these ten or so excellent workers for more than a week must be worth at least thirty pounds.

If you add in the cost of making various mechanical parts, the cost of a car can reach more than 100 pounds in an instant, and if you add in the scrapped defective products, the cost of each car will be at least 160 pounds.

The question arises, will a car costing one hundred and sixty pounds be priced at less than two hundred pounds?

The answer is really not high. If you look at the original size of the Benz company, although it is the largest car factory in Germany, it produces less than 200 cars per year.

Even if each car could earn thirty pounds, two hundred cars would only earn a maximum of six thousand pounds.

After all taxes and other miscellaneous expenses, the company would have made a profit of less than £5,000 at most.

Crucially, even if Benz sets the price of cars very low and the margins are very small, few people can afford to buy expensive cars.

The most important factor is that the car has shown great potential and still has not developed a corresponding market.

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

According to Benz's estimates, there are three areas where the new plant has changed the most: First, the car construction time has been greatly reduced.

Previously, Benz employed more than 300 people at its car plant in Germany and produced less than 200 cars a year.

Today, instead of growing, the plant has become smaller, employing just over 200 people and producing an estimated 2,000 vehicles a year.

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

As a result, workers become more skilled in their jobs, and parts can be produced and installed more quickly.

The second change is the unification of automotive parts.

The previous production method would lead to different workers in the production of each car, and there was a large gap between the parts of the car, which increased the difficulty of maintenance in disguise.

This is one of the reasons why people can't afford to afford such an expensive item as a car, and the price of car maintenance will even rise to a level similar to the price in just a few years, and the unstable car has made it a very expensive luxury.

Now, after the same workers produce and the same type of parts, the same type of parts become more unified, and it is more convenient to repair, and replacing parts can also become one of the main maintenance methods for new cars.

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

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

The manual production method cost at least twenty pounds per car was spent on labor.

Now that we have switched to an assembly line production method, the cost of labour has been reduced to less than £3 per car.

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

According to Benz's estimates, the cost of a new car production is between £100 and £120, and the cost can be further reduced as workers become familiar with assembly line production and improve.

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

It's good to be able to do this now, at least it has greatly reduced production costs and effectively accelerated production speed.

After learning the news, Arthur was still surprised and satisfied. However, the cost of more than 100 pounds is still too high, and there is more room for improvement in the new production method.

You know, the final price of the Model T is only $260, which is only about 50 pounds sterling.

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

Arthur's order was to continue to study the production method of the assembly line and improve it.

As long as it is possible to keep the production cost of the car below eighty pounds, it can be put into production.

The Model T was originally priced at $825, or £165. If Mercedes-Benz can squeeze production costs under £80, then a £150 price can make a lot of money.

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

As the price of automobiles decreased, the potential and market for automobiles gradually expanded, and it was even possible to reach a huge market of 20 million units within 30 years.

If Mercedes-Benz can seize the opportunity, it may not be able to set a sales record for the original historical Model T 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 expectations, the fleet finally arrived in the port of Sydney, and brought good news to Arthur.

The first is the formal signing of the Indigenous Program.

This was a plan that had been negotiated for a long time, and after Queen Wilhelmina signed her name, the treaty was officially implemented.

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

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

But judging from the protruding long pipes, what was wrapped was supposed to be a cannon.

According to Princess Louis, 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 gave this gift very generously, and according to 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 things, you will not poison everyone. Or is it important for the development of the country

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