Li Ming looked at several steam-powered tractors, whizzing back and forth on the flat cultivated land, and his heart was excited. Although internal combustion engine tractors are lighter than steam tractors, they are also easier to operate and work more efficiently. However, the development of high-horsepower internal combustion engines has not been smooth.

Although several prototypes of high-horsepower gasoline and diesel engines developed by the Far East Power Research Institute have already been manufactured and are constantly improving, several engines developed by the Power Research Institute are mature products in the seventies and eighties, and the starting point is relatively high.

In fact, this is also the company's mistake in formulating the industrial development plan, not only the company's power machinery, but also many other industrial categories have underestimated the conditions of this era. It was only after coming to this era that it was readjusted and finally became regular.

This is not the company's experts and technicians are ambitious, all of a sudden from the modern society to the era of hundreds of years ago, we think about the problem when habitually using the thinking of modern society to judge, many people put the Ming Dynasty three hundred years ago, with the Republic of China period and even the period of the fifties and sixties just after the founding of the People's Republic of China to substitute.

But it wasn't until they came to this era that they learned that it wasn't like that at all. Many of the company's industrial categories had to readjust their plans, greatly lowered the standards for starting out, and even accumulated step by step from scratch.

Fortunately, before the company came back, the information of modern society was collected very comprehensively. At least there are no technical bottlenecks, but there is a long way to go to meet the technical requirements of various materials and processes.

However, the planning of the Power Research Institute and the Materials Research Institute cannot be easily changed, after all, there are too many resources and materials and equipment invested before, and it is obviously unrealistic to go back, and it is better to develop steam power according to the old internal combustion engine in the last century.

The company has carefully considered it. Although it seems to have taken a detour to still develop these mature engines before the 80s in modern society, once the bottleneck is broken, the scientific and technological level of the Far East will take a big step forward, even if the development cycle is a little longer.

Therefore, the company's demand for high-horsepower steam-powered machinery is particularly important. At present, the company has gradually stepped into the fast lane of development. In the next few years, it is bound to increase the development of various regions.

If you only rely on a large number of manpower, labor productivity and efficiency will inevitably be very low, and you will not be able to meet the needs of the company's rapid development. In this way, the development of steam power has become a top priority for the company in the near future.

Compared with the complex power of internal combustion engines, the technical level of steam power is relatively low. The steam engine of the steam tractor together with the mechanical part includes the steam chamber, cylinder, piston, crosshead, rocker, connecting rod, valve actuator and other components.

After the high-pressure and high-temperature superheated steam generated by the boiler enters the steam chamber, it enters the cylinder through the steam distribution action of the valve actuator, and expands in the cylinder for work. This pushes the piston, which is then transmitted to the drive wheel via the crank linkage. Boilers, steam turbines and other components are fixed on the frame, and the weight is transferred from the axle box to the wheels through the spring suspension device.

With the current level of industry in the Far East, this is not a problem at all. After all, the company has been producing steam engines for several years and has accumulated extremely rich experience. So it took less than a year to develop several high-horsepower tractors.

There are also several steam cars, which have also been developed and are currently in the intense testing stage. It is said that the test data in all aspects also performed well. It is estimated that large-scale production capacity will be formed by the end of next year.

At present, the vast rural areas of the Far East are in urgent need of several tractors and agricultural machinery, and once these vehicles and machinery are popularized, the company's agricultural productivity level will be greatly improved. Highway and railway construction sites, mines, and infrastructure construction sites around the country are also in urgent need of large-scale machinery and equipment.

In the past, the company's steam power units were in the form of standard parts, which were quickly assembled where they were needed, although they were easy to install. However, the steam engine is large in size and heavy in weight, so it is difficult to disassemble and move after installation, and it cannot be flexibly arranged.

Now, with these high-horsepower steam tractors, the company has a flexible platform for large steam engines. It can be arbitrarily arranged in various locations with complex conditions, which is much more convenient than before.

In fact, in recent years, the company has developed steam engine power on a large scale, and there is a very important factor. That is, with the current production capacity of the Far Eastern Company's Sakhalin petrochemical industry, if the Far East develops internal combustion engine power on a large scale, it is estimated that it will soon face a large-scale oil shortage.

The reason for the abundant fuel in the Far East in recent years is mainly because the company itself does not have many vehicles and machinery, but once the internal combustion engine power is developed on a large scale, it is very likely that there will be a large-scale situation of vehicles and machinery.

There is no problem with steam engine power, and the most important thing in the Northeast is coal resources, even in areas where there is no coal, wood can also be used as fuel for steam engines.

After the demonstration of all the accepted vehicles and machinery, a group of standing committee members and members of the company's board of directors all walked up to carefully observe these new vehicles and machinery, and everyone was very excited.

The Far East finally has its own vehicles and machinery, and today is definitely a milestone day. No matter how advanced things in modern society are, they cannot be used forever, and sooner or later they will be scrapped. Only by relying on their own efforts to develop and manufacture things is the hope of the future development of Far Eastern Company.

Li Ming, Gao Jianguo and others also personally got into the car to experience the fun of driving, especially for the 110-horsepower large steam tractor, they are full of praise, although the size is huge, the operation is cumbersome, and the speed is relatively slow.

But these big guys are extremely powerful, and everyone is very enjoyable to drive. The entire acceptance site is full of "sudden...... Sudden ......" roared, and the scene was very lively.

Li Ming jumped down from the tractor, came to Gao Jianguo and Wang He's side, and said with a smile: "It's really enjoyable, this big guy is really energetic." ”

Gao Jianguo also laughed and said: "Yes, it's enjoyable, our Far East finally has its own large-scale machinery and equipment." Although these big guys are stupid and black and coarse, and their voices are loud, Lao Tzu is really cool. ”

Wang He also smiled and said: "We have just started, and we will get better and better in the future." These steam-powered vehicles and equipment are sufficient to meet the company's current needs. Sooner or later, our own high-horsepower internal combustion engine power will also mature. (To be continued.) )

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