The second largest export product produced in Queensland is a series of diesel machinery, including supporting marine diesel engines, civil diesel engines, agricultural diesel engines and self-propelled tractors. The annual export reached 176,000 sets, surpassing the shipbuilding industry and jumped to second place.

As a result, Australia General Machinery Company has developed into a world machinery industry giant with tens of thousands of employees and dozens of supporting factories. More than 170,000 employees related to the supporting system are ranked among the top two in the world machinery industry, with the American Cargill Steam Machinery Company, monopolizing the entire diesel engine production and manufacturing industry chain, and has an undisputed dominance in this emerging industrial field.

The Earl family of Queensland, Australia has thousands of patents for the production of series diesel engines, almost every innovative invention, and has more than a dozen key mechanical laboratories located in the United States, Europe and Queensland. They invest huge amounts of research and development in this field every year, leading the world trend of the machinery industry development.

With the hot selling of small and medium-sized tractors in the world, various agricultural machinery such as rotary tillage, seeds, deep-turning plowshares, wear-resistant blades, rice transplanting, and raking fields sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Taking advantage of the hot selling trend of marketing, hundreds of large and small agricultural machinery manufacturing companies have emerged.

Hundreds of people on large scale, and more than ten people on small scale, even just family workshops have found their own living space in the development boom.

It is particularly worth mentioning that Goodyear Rubber Company, established in May 1882, has established the leading position and industry standards of the tire industry for supporting rubber radial tires produced by 4-wheel tractors.

1885 Year

After years of rapid development, Goodyear Rubber Company has become the largest user of natural rubber exports in the Governor's Office of the British Straits. It imports natural rubber every year to reach a scale of 7,600 tons, which strongly drives the rubber plantations in Malaya to further expand their output and cope with the increasing demand gap.

In order to resolve the sharp human resources conflict, the British also set their sights on the Qing Dynasty, a populous country in the north. A new round of Chinese immigration boom occurred within the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Straits. This was a strong promotion by local whites and Chinese planters. Everything originated from the market and interests.

This change was unexpected by Red Fort and was welcomed with caution.

As the "protector of Chinese overseas immigration", the Earl of Queensland specially strengthened personnel in Singapore, closely contacted the British Strait Governor's Office, and urged local planters to safeguard the interests of Chinese workers and treat workers equally.

Goodyear Rubber's products are not limited to tractor tires, but have also developed into a series of bicycle tires, which are produced for Phoenix bicycles and are also popular products sold in Europe and the United States.

Relying on Goodyear Rubber Company's high-quality rubber products, Songjiang City has developed a series of small and medium-sized rubber product factories, from rubber rain boots and ponchos, rubber tablecloths, rubber mattresses to diesel engines with high-temperature resistant rubber gaskets and rubber pipes, all kinds of products are available, and they have found their position in the market and have grown step by step.

This fully proves the smart mind of Chinese people in doing business, and it will be brilliant if you give a little sunshine.

A flagship product drives an industrial group. The prosperity of the diesel machinery industry promotes the great development of Queensland's machinery processing industry. It has achieved catching up in just seven or eight years, and has made progress together. Now it has surpassed in some production fields.

The development of Goodyear Rubber Company has driven the downstream series of rubber product manufacturing and the upstream raw material production. In Shangri-La and Borneo, a large number of natural rubber gardens are in the early stage of forest cultivation. Some rubber trees have been lush and green to five or six meters high, densely packed at a glance.

Some rubber seedlings have just been planted and it takes seven or eight years of long growth period to mature and cut rubber. This is a gradual process.

As a key project for Hongbao to implement its economic strategy, the natural rubber plantation has invested huge amounts of money to develop vigorously, spending up to one million pounds every year, solving the livelihood of more than 200,000 immigrants. It is a key economic crop in the development plan of Qixing Town in the Qingshui River Basin.

Similarly, it is also a key economic crop for the Jinshui River Basin development project and requires continuous and vigorous investment.

Whether it is a car, a heavy tractor, a series of light tractors and diesel engines, they are all inseparable from the development of the rubber industry.

Driven by Red Fort

Prescient people in the upper class of Queensland have put out their funds to invest in private rubber plantations, and many large-scale plantations of partnership have emerged, which have resettled more Chinese immigrants and become a beautiful landscape for regional development.

History changed in 1876

General Machinery, Australia, which is absolutely controlled by the Earl of Queensland family, has successively launched two heavy products to test the European and American markets, a 4-wheel household luxury sedan and a Iron Bull 350 heavy-duty tractor.

In today's society at the end of the 19th century, these two heavyweight products were two kingly, and as soon as they appeared, they attracted rave reviews.

It was the first to launch a mature four-wheeled car product, with a beautiful streamlined shape, which looks like a luxurious convertible car, steering wheel steering structure, a two-stage transmission, with manual copper bells, gas lanterns, gold-plated reversing mirrors, exquisite clocks, and comfortable natural latex seats, covered with high-quality Australian top cowhide.

As a test product, the "Crown" brand cars are made by hand from carriages to seat bags, with an annual output of only more than 100 vehicles, which will inevitably lead to high-quality things that are affordable to the general public.

The luxury four-wheeled car was unveiled in London and Paris at the same time, and immediately became a hot topic for major newspapers and media, igniting the strong interest of upper-class nobles and expressed their willingness to order such an expensive thing.

A "Crown" brand car is priced at £4,800, and it requires personal installation and additional costs, such as gold-plated footsteps, equipped with hard roofs, silver-plated reflective gas lamps (more beautiful and cool), upgraded cowhide wrapping steering wheel, customized personalized cowhide wrapping storage box, upgraded manual wipers, etc. Each item costs a lot, and the top-end can even double the price to more than tens of thousands of pounds.

Such a high price makes the "Crown" brand car that appears on the spot only become a high-end toy for big nobles and big capitalists, and most people dare not take it easily.

At this price, you can buy a 5-bedroom luxury apartment in the West End of London, which can employ 300 American workers for a year.

General Machinery Company took the lead in launching the new era "Iron Niu 350" to replace heavy steam tractors. It first landed in New York and Lyon. After a short-term trial sales and reputation fermentation, it will surely usher in a huge explosion in demand.

In agricultural production or people's travel needs, heavy tractors and four-wheeled cars are unavoidable products of social progress. The emergence of these machinery represents the development of science and technology and heralds the progress of the times. Under the strong driving force of Queensland, it appeared earlier than in history.

This is not surprising

The steam industrial revolution has developed to this day and has already had the soil for the survival and development of cars and heavy tractors. All it takes is to push it from behind and make it come out earlier. This is what Queensland has made.

Mechanical power replaces animal power is a demand for the development of the times and is not subject to human will.

Taking a French heavy-duty freight four-wheeled carriage as an example, the double horse can carry up to 4 to 5,000 pounds of cargo, and the daily transportation distance is no more than 60 kilometers.

To raise two such strong horses, the annual cost of raising them in Europe will not be less than £240. The horse must be well fed, and at least one spare horse must be replaced. With a diligent coachman, the total annual expenditure shall not be less than £350.

A Tienniu 350 tractor can easily drag 30,000 pounds of cargo. On sections of good road conditions, the transportation distance is more than 200 kilometers per day (20 kilometers per hour, 10 hours of operation per day). All it takes is mechanical maintenance and filling of diesel and cooling water.

This is how it counts

An Iron 350 tractor is 20 times more efficient than the former. As long as the machinery is intact, it can work endlessly, and its efficiency is far better than a heavy-duty carriage.
Chapter completed!