Australian Storm 1876

Chapter 447: Iron Bull 350

  Chapter 447 Iron Bull 350

  If what is expected is good, Lu Qiang’s plan is really likely to succeed, because Huaxia immigrants have a supporting resettlement plan, and there will be immigrant loans after arriving at the destination. As long as they have the hands and feet, they are willing to work hard and do not worry about stability.

  Lu Qiang made up a total of more than 20,000 pounds, which is a huge wealth in today's era, enough to do a lot of things.

With the government’s good policies, it only takes four or two tens of kilograms to get in the middle. More than 20,000 pounds can produce a huge effect far exceeding this amount of funds. Maybe the dream of Lujiazhen can really be realized, but the homeland in my heart. care.

  As for the interests lost in Qingdao Town, as long as new towns develop, they will all be recovered countless times. This is a new type of town led by Lu Qiang, and maybe it is his dream!

  With a thought hidden in his heart, Zhao Qishan became silent.

Sitting alone in the teahouse, leaning on the railing, the new town of Qingdao is expanding in all directions, new beautiful buildings are springing up like mushrooms, the city is expanding every moment, and the chimneys of the industrial zone in the distance are emerging. Thick black smoke, a flourishing and prosperous scene.

  He felt a touch of emotion in his heart;

  This is my home, we must work hard to make it better.

Qingdao Town has no shortage of shops, ports, trading companies, and flat and wide asphalt roads. But seeing the children grow up, Qingdao Town lacks a qualified elementary school. People in this emerging town get married every day. To start a family and start a career, there is no hospital to heal the pain.

  In order to make Qingdao a better town, as a local gentry who got rich first, Zhao Qishan felt that he shouldered social responsibility, and it was necessary to join other ranchers to initiate public welfare education and medical undertakings.

   Thinking of this, he could no longer sit still, got up and hurried downstairs.

He wants to unite some ranchers and wealthy businessmen to initiate fundraising and establish the first public welfare elementary school and hospital in Qingdao Town. As long as everyone reaches out to the top, this new town can be built more beautiful, more livable and more harmonious. .

  Longmen Town, Shangri-La Island

This is a town prospered by mining. It is the largest town within the scope of the Koi Mining Bureau. The town has a population of more than 37,000. It is mainly engaged in transportation, fishing, commerce and entertainment, plus the surrounding areas. The scattered cottages have a total population of close to 50,000.

  According to the plan of Li Siyuan, the newly arrived director of the Koi Mining Bureau, it is planned to gather all nearby cities and towns, and the total population will exceed 120,000, which meets the criteria for applying for city establishment.

Near the Longmen Iron and Steel Plant, which is about 20 kilometers away, relying on the iron and steel plant to form a town with a population of 14,000, there are also Luoshan Valley Town, mining towns and other small towns that are responsible for material transfer. There are 4~ 50,000 people, a total of about 130,000 to 140,000.

Once approved to establish Longmen City, compared with the greatly expanded power of the town-level administrative agencies, the originally loose administrative agencies have become centralized, which is more conducive to tailoring appropriate economic development strategies based on the characteristics of local resources and keeping up with this. Round the tide of vigorous development.

  The Jinli Mining Bureau has no shortage of resources and electricity. Gold, silver, copper and iron are all sought-after items. Longmen Iron and Steel Plant benefits from high-quality magnetite deposits, and its development goal is special steel. The future prospects are very broad.

Even if all copper concentrates are transported to Baihu City for processing, the local area can still find suitable cutting-in opportunities, such as smelting copper concentrates into copper ingots, which greatly increases the added value of products and can also rely on the advantages of special steels. The development of sub-industry is unreasonable to be left behind by brother towns.

  After Li Siyuan took office as the director of the Koi Mining Bureau, further increasing the production capacity of the mining area is of course the top priority, but the development of the entire regional economy cannot be ignored. He wiped off his sleeves and prepared ambitiously.

  The top priority is to promote Longmen Town to build a city and establish a city council.

  After he took office, he ran the entire Mining Bureau with people in a light car, and he became more confident in the development of Longmen Town’s economy.

  Nothing else, Lord Earl really loves this land so much.

Tens of thousands of square kilometers of land nearby are all allocated to the Koi Mining Bureau, including small towns, rural areas and steel plants. The roads here are paved with high-quality asphalt from the natural asphalt lakes in Central America, even in remote villages and towns. In this way, in hot weather, the sun will not deform, and the quality is good for a long time. People are enviable and speechless.

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  The most prosperous downtown area of ​​Qingdao Town uses only petroleum asphalt imported from the United States, which is one level worse than natural high-quality asphalt.

   Mercedes-Benz in the heavy tractor team from Mining Town to Longmen Town, burly bodies bursting with thick black smoke roaring past. The long tractor team can't see the end at a glance, and it can't be seen in other areas.

The output of this type of heavy tractor is very small. The Australian General Machinery Company can produce 65 units per month. The output is gradually increasing. It is expected to reach a monthly output of 120 units in 1886. The current output of heavy tractors is provided to the Koi Copper and Gold Mine. , No one can be seen in other places, and gradually improved in practice.

  From this, it can be seen that Hongbao attaches great importance to the mining area, really like a heart.

  The heavy-duty tractor pulls the deepened trailer, which can normally transport 20 tons of copper concentrate at a speed of 12-15 kilometers per hour. A transfer water station is set up every 60 kilometers along the way for the driver to rest and fill the water tank.

  Generally speaking

  Starting from the mining town with a full load of ore, you can cross the winding mountain road to the sunset valley in a whole day. After resting here and checking the tractor, you can successfully arrive at the special ore unloading dock in Longmen Town the next afternoon.

  It only takes one day to return to an empty car, plus one day of maintenance and repair of the machinery, and it takes about 4 days to go back and forth.

  At present, the Bureau of Mines has 522 heavy tractors, and 30 units are used as a convoy to transport ore in an endless stream. Calculated with a 70% intact rate, the monthly capacity is about 50,000 tons.

This transportation capacity is sufficient for copper concentrate, but coupled with iron ore transportation, it is far from sufficient. Therefore, due to the untimely supply of raw materials, the operating rate of Longmen Iron and Steel Plant is only between 30% and 40%, which cannot produce at full power. .

  In order to ensure the operation of heavy tractors, the mine has a large maintenance plant and a special technical school, and there is a warehouse for vulnerable parts at the transfer water station along the way, and any problems can be repaired at any time.

The heavy tractor project team of General Machinery Plant of Australia has a special technical support team stationed in the Bureau of Mines to collect the first-hand data used in mine transportation and continuously improve the design to make the Tieniu brand heavy tractor mature faster. It is close to the prototype of the tractor for later generations.

A series of advanced designs such as round steering wheel, retrofit mirrors, high standing exhaust pipes, two-stage transmission, wheel brakes, steering rods, heavy leaf springs, etc., have been applied to "Tie Niu" heavy-duty tractors. .

  It’s not polite to say that the "Tie Niu 350" equipped with a 3.5-liter diesel engine is definitely a big killer. It can kill all steam tractors equipped with small steam locomotives in today's era and become an irreproducible classic product.

  In response to a problem commonly reported by tractor drivers, the design team equipped the Tieniu tractor with a cab, but one problem stumped the design team, that is, there is no suitable glass to use.

  Due to the limitation of the times

  Laminated glass, tempered glass and other special products have not yet appeared, but the thickened float glass used on ships is very expensive.

  And ordinary glass can not adapt to the complex and harsh working conditions of the iron cow tractor, and it will hurt people after being broken, which forms a big problem.

  So the designer’s solution is;

  Leave a window in front of the cab to avoid the sun and rain, and to ensure a clear view. The driver only needs to bring a goggles, there is no need to install expensive thick float glass.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that with the emergence of heavy tractors, Goodyear Rubber Tire Co., Ltd. has adopted a new design in the use and improvement of heavy tractor tires. Focus on.

   Added vertical patterns to facilitate drainage in rainy weather, added multi-layer warp and weft weaving for heavy loads, and used new technologies such as new inner tube design and lengthened valve cores.

  This further promoted Goodyear Tire’s technology maturity and applied for several 10 patents, laying a solid foundation for the future occupation of the world market.

  Huge demand for transportation has promoted technological progress, subtly improving the design and production level of Queensland machinery, and improving the level of mechanical processing and internal combustion engine design. The invisible technological progress is invisible to the naked eye, but it does exist.

  The tractor driver running around on the transportation line can clearly feel that the powerful iron cow under the seat has fewer failures, is more robust and durable, and is more handy to drive, and the increase in cargo carried is less likely to break down halfway.

  The original unreliable water tank cooling system has been repeatedly improved, and now it rarely fails. The steering wheel is lighter to use, and the two-stage transmission is better to shift and use.

  These changes all reflect the improvement and improvement of technology and craftsmanship, and they are the most obvious case of demand to promote technological progress.

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  German engineers and British engineers who are good at machinery have played a leading role. A new generation of young Chinese technicians have been tempered in technical practice, their abilities have improved rapidly, and they have grown into white engineers' right-hand man.

  In time, it will surely be able to provoke more technology research and development and grow into the main force of Queensland’s technological advancement.

  In technological progress

The Red Fort decision makers adopted the two-legged plan of going out and introducing them. On the one hand, they sent outstanding students to study in Europe and the United States. The annual scale has reached more than 1,000 people. The sponge has absorbed the advanced technological achievements of Europe and the United States since the steam industrial revolution. , Enrich the team of young technical staff.

On the one hand, the new university invests in education, hires famous scholars as professors, and serves as technical directors of major companies, and invests huge amounts of money in research and development. It is mainly used in mechanical processing manufacturing, chemical industry, wool textile, shipbuilding and steel industries to implement technological breakthroughs. A lot of results have been achieved.

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