1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 331 Volkswagen (2)

A few days later, a company called “Volkswagen” was established in Cleveland. This company was inconspicuous when it was established. Although there are legends that this company is actually the property of the McDonald family, you have to check its major shareholders. In addition to Standard Oil’s Rockefeller, it seems to be true MacDonald has little to do, at least, there is no McDonald among these shareholders.

Of course, if you dig a little, you will find that the shareholders of these shareholders, you will find that they are all holding companies of the McDonald family or even sole proprietorships. In fact, most of the shares of this “Volkswagen” are controlled by the McDonald family.

The ceremony for the establishment of the company was very simple, and the McDonald family did not have any important people to speak. After the company was founded, it paid a lot of money to publish a brief bulletin on the front page of many newspapers, including the New York Times. At the same time in the broadcast, “Volkswagen” also began to appear frequently in prime time. It has appeared on the radio for a long time, and such announcements have been published in conspicuous positions on a large area, which really made many people pay attention to this newly established company, but on the other hand, whether it is the bulletin or those short advertisements, it is short. It’s not even enough to make people understand what this company does and what the so-called “gasoline-powered cars” they produce are.

This of course also aroused the interest of some people. For example, in radio programs, people kept calling in and asked what the so-called “gasoline-powered car” produced by “Volkswagen” was. However, the anchor can only answer with “I am not very clear”. This situation has also aroused the curiosity of some people more and more.

Half a month later, the answer was revealed. On this day, “Volkswagen” invited a large number of media to conduct a public display activity under the New York Tower. The first to be exhibited was a truck. Compared with the carriage, this car has a larger body and thicker tires. In front of the huge body is the cab of the car. The cab is made of steel structure and iron sheet. The front is two windshield glass, and the two sides are equipped with glass doors. There are two seats, steering wheel, gearbox, clutch, accelerator and brake pedals. On the whole, it looks roughly the same as a modern truck.

For comparison, there is a carriage parked beside this truck. This is a heavy-duty carriage with four tall Shire horses. Sharma is the tallest and strongest horse in the world. The height of an adult Sharma is generally more than two meters at the shoulder. If you raise your head, the height from the hoof to the head of the horse is usually more than two meters. Reached more than a ton. Generally speaking, only one Shire horse is enough for a carriage, and this carriage is pulled by four Shire horses, which is simply a luxury!

Next to these two vehicles, there is an electric crane, and beside it, there are some iron ingots. These iron ingots are marked with the words “1T”. In full view, the electric crane hoisted five such iron ingots onto the carriage in one go. Five tons, this carriage was loaded with a full five tons of things in one breath.

However, people who are more familiar with Sharma still don’t care too much. If you are pulling five tons of goods on flat ground, let alone four Sharma, you can do it with all your strength. Four Sharmas, pulling such a thing, is definitely not tired. But if you look at the road ahead, the situation seems a bit different.

On the road surrounding the New York Tower, there are small uphills and downhills built of steel plates. For trucks, climbing is the most difficult.

Then the electric crane lifted ten iron ingots onto the truck in one breath. At the same time, on a high platform temporarily erected nearby, the general manager of “Volkswagen”, Frank Rockefeller, announced that the race between trucks and trucks has now begun.

The first thing that started was the carriage with four Shire horses. Although it contained a lot of goods, the Shire horse was a Shire horse after all. It was worthy of the reputation of being the strongest horse. The coachman gently shook his whip. The four horses worked together and quickly moved around with the carriage, and then quickly turned into a trot. Then the speed increased further and became a fast run. Of course, the Sharma itself is not a horse that is good at running, and pulling the cart, so-called fast running, can’t go anywhere.

“Hey! It’s really Sharma! Pulled so much and can still run!” Someone couldn’t help but exclaimed among the crowd watching the game.

“Hey, I don’t know where it is stronger than the broken wagon in our house.” Another person who looks like a coachman also sighed, “Our car is packed with five tons of goods, I’m afraid It just broke down. Together, the two horses in the family are probably no better than a Shire.”

At this time, Schumacher, the driver of that car, just started the car with the joystick and got into the cab. At this time, the carriage was almost a hundred meters ahead of him. Schumacher gently put down the handbrake, put up the gear, put his hands on the steering wheel, and slowly raised the clutch.

The truck pulling a full ten tons of cargo expelled a puff of black smoke, and then began to accelerate forward. Compared to some later generations of light trucks with more than 100 horsepower, at this time, the original power of the Volkswagen truck with only 40 horsepower was much worse, but it was overloaded with 10 tons of cargo. Judging by the standards of later generations, the level of acceleration is naturally disastrous.

But this is from the level of later generations. In this era, when Schumacher stepped on the accelerator pedal severely, the 8.0-liter V12 engine roared, and to others, the car immediately seemed to be angry. The bull rushed out.

“Oh my God! So fast!” exclaimed amidst the onlookers.

At this time, the carriage had also reached the first ramp. This slope is actually more than one meter high, but the slope is a little big. The driver of the carriage was also an old-fashioned man. Knowing that the slope could not be rushed over by a dash, he reduced the speed a little so that the four Sharmas could use their feet on the ground to pull the carriage over.

Sharmas are Sharmas after all. The long-haired hoofs of these huge and graceful horses are sturdy on the ramp, and their shoulder muscles bulge high, pulling this five-ton heavy-duty car. The carriage passed the ramp smoothly.

“Good job! What a good horse!” The man who looked like a coachman just now exclaimed again. He had been staring at this ramp just now, and it was not easy to pull such a heavy object over such a ramp. He felt that ten horses might not be enough if he changed his horse.

As soon as the admiration fell, the weird “car” also came to the ramp, it didn’t even slow down, rushed straight up, caught up with the carriage in a blink of an eye, and then slammed it mercilessly. Behind…

“This…this is dragging ten tons of cargo? When going uphill, it didn’t slow down much, so it passed? Is there any reason for this?” The coachman couldn’t help shouting, but he He has not yet received the education of proletarian revolutionary thought, and has not established such things as:

“The darkness of ignorance and hypocrisy. Still shrouded the world!

I swear, starting today, I will fight for the truth…”

This kind of oath. Otherwise, if you can’t keep it, he will shout at the car: “This is unscientific!” Let’s see if there are any dark creatures in it.

The car quickly overtook the carriage, and then left the carriage far behind at a frightening speed.

In addition to this ramp, there are two higher ramps in this circle. Although the angle of the second ramp is slightly flatter, the height is higher, which is a full five or six meters high. The smoky car turned over almost without slowing down at all, and when the carriage got here, the four Sharma struggled to drag the car past. At this time, the sun shone diagonally, shining on Sharma’s long mane, shining brightly-this is the horse’s sweat shining in the sun.

After climbing this slope, everyone can see attentively that the legs of several Sharma horses have begun to tremble. At this time, with a whistling sound, the black-smoke “car” unexpectedly surpassed the carriage once again-when the carriage was less than half of the journey, the car unexpectedly surpassed him by a whole Circled…

Finally, after crossing the last ramp and returning to the starting point, the four Shire horses were exhausted and almost unable to move, and the car dragged twice their load and easily looped them three times…