The second largest export product produced by Queensland is a series of diesel machinery, including supporting marine diesel engines, civil diesel engines, agricultural diesel engines and self-propelled tractors, with annual exports reaching 176,000 sets, surpassing the shipbuilding industry to rank second.

As a result, the Australian General Machinery Company has also developed into a world machinery industry giant with tens of thousands of employees and dozens of supporting factories, with more than 170,000 employees related to the supporting system, and the United States Kargill Steam Machinery Company ranks among the top two in the world's machinery industry, monopolizing the whole industrial chain of diesel engine production and manufacturing, and has an indisputable dominant position in this emerging industrial field.

The Earl of Queensland family in Australia has thousands of patents for the production of diesel engines, almost every innovative invention, and has more than 10 key mechanical laboratories in the United States, Europe and Queensland, and invests heavily in research and development in this field every year, leading the world trend of the development of the machinery industry.

With the hot sale of small and medium-sized tractors in the world, various agricultural machinery such as rotary tillage, sowing, deep ploughing, wear-resistant blades, rice transplanting, and harrowing have sprung up.

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

In particular, it is worth mentioning that the Goodyear Rubber Company, which was established in May 1882, produced rubber radial tires for 4-wheeled tractors, and marketed the world with low price and excellent performance, and established a leading position and industry standard in the tire industry.

1885 year

After years of rapid development, Goodyear Rubber Company has become the largest user of natural rubber exports from the British Channel Governor's Office, importing 7,600 tons of natural rubber every year, which has strongly driven rubber plantations in Malaya to further expand their output and cope with the growing demand gap.

In order to solve the sharp contradiction of human resources, the British also set their sights on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, a populous country in the north, and a new wave of Chinese immigration appeared in the area under the jurisdiction of the Strait Governor's Palace, which was strongly promoted by local white and Chinese plantation owners, all from the market and from interests.

This change was unexpected by the Red Fort, which was cautiously welcomed.

As the "protector of Chinese overseas immigrants", the Earl of Queensland has specially strengthened the staff of the agency in Singapore, and has been in close contact with the Governor-General of the British Channel to urge local plantation owners to protect the interests of Chinese workers and treat them equally.

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

Relying on the high-quality rubber products of Goodyear Rubber Company, Songjiang City has developed a series of small and medium-sized rubber products factories, from rubber rain boots ponchos, rubber tablecloths, rubber mattresses to diesel engines supporting high-temperature rubber gaskets, rubber pipes, all kinds of products, dazzling, in the market to find their own positioning, step by step development and growth.

This fully proves that the shrewd minds of Chinese people in business can shine brightly if they give a little sunshine.

A fist product drives an industrial group, the prosperity of the diesel machinery industry promotes the development of Queensland's machinery processing industry, in just seven or eight years to catch up, go hand in hand, and now in some production areas have achieved transcendence.

The development of Goodyear Rubber Company has driven the downstream series of rubber product manufacturing, and driven the upstream raw material production, in Shangri-La, in Borneo, a large number of natural rubber plantations are in the early state of afforestation, some rubber trees have been three years old, lush and green to five or six meters high, dense turns at a glance with no end in sight.

Some rubber seedlings have just been planted, and it will take seven or eight years of long growth period to mature and tap rubber, which is a gradual process.

As a key project of Red Fort's economic strategy, the natural rubber plantation has invested heavily in vigorous development, spending up to one million pounds per year to solve the livelihood of more than 200,000 immigrants, and is the key cash crop of the development plan of Qixing Town in the Qingshui River Basin.

Similarly, it is also a key cash crop for the Jinshui River Basin Development Project, which requires continuous and vigorous investment.

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

Led by the Red Fort

Queensland's upper-class prescient people have invested in private rubber plantations, and many large-scale plantations of partnership nature have appeared, housing more Chinese immigrants, and becoming a beautiful landscape of regional development.

History changed in 1876

The Australian General Machinery Company, which is absolutely controlled by the Earl of Queensland family, has launched two blockbuster products to test the European and American markets, a 4-wheeled family luxury car and an Iron Bull 350 heavy-duty tractor.

In today's society at the end of the 19th century, these two blockbuster products can be described as two king fried, and as soon as they appeared, they attracted rave reviews.

It pioneered a full-fledged four-wheeled car with a beautifully streamlined shape that looks like a luxury convertible carriage, steering wheel steering structure, two-stage transmission, manual brass bells, gas horse lights, gold-plated mirrors, exquisite clocks, and comfortable natural latex seats covered in high-quality Australian cowhide.

As a test product, the "Crown" brand car from the compartment to the seat bag is handmade, the annual output is only more than 100 units, which will inevitably lead to the high price of Seiko, not the general public can afford to consume high-end things.

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

A "Crown" brand car, priced at 4,800 pounds, requires personalized additions and additional money, such as gold-plated pedals, equipped with a hard roof, silver-plated reflective gas lamps (more beautiful and cool), upgraded cowhide wrapped steering wheel, customized personalized cowhide wrapped storage box, upgraded manual wipers, etc., each of which costs a lot of money, and the top configuration can even double the price, more than 10,000 pounds.

With such a high price, the "Crown" brand car that appeared at first glance can only become a high-end plaything for big aristocrats and big capitalists, and ordinary people dare not ask about it.

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

General Machinery took the lead in launching a new era of replacing heavy-duty steam tractors, the "Iron Bull 350", which first landed in New York and Lyon, and after a short period of test marketing and word-of-mouth fermentation, it will usher in a huge explosion of demand.

Heavy tractors and four-wheeled vehicles are the inevitable products of social progress in agricultural production or people's travel needs, and the emergence of these machinery represents the development of science and technology, indicating the progress of the times.

This is not surprising

The steam industrial revolution has developed to this day, and there is already the soil for the survival and development of automobiles and heavy tractors, all that is needed is a gentle push from the back to make it available earlier, and this is what Queensland is trying to do.

The replacement of animal power by mechanical power is the demand of the development of the times, and it is not subject to human will.

Take a French-style heavy-duty freight four-wheeled carriage as an example, with two horses driving the wheel, the maximum can carry 4~5,000 pounds of goods, and the daily transportation distance is not more than 60 kilometers.

The cost of raising two such strong horses in Europe will not be less than 240 pounds a year, and the horses must be well fed, and at least one spare horse must be replaced, accompanied by a diligent coachman, and the total annual expenditure will not be less than 350 pounds.

A Tieniu 350 tractor can easily haul 30,000 pounds of load, covering more than 200 kilometers per day (20 kilometers per hour, 10 hours a day) on good road conditions, and all that is required is mechanical maintenance, diesel fueling, and cooling water.

That's it

An Iron Bull 350 tractor is 20 times more efficient than the former, as long as the machinery is intact, it can work without sleep, and the efficiency is far better than that of a heavy-duty carriage.

Such a simple account can be easily calculated.