194 Made in Germany (1400 monthly pass plus updates)
The new general manager of Antwerp Company is named Lawrence Amelia. I wonder if the shareholders of Antwerp Company wanted to facilitate communication with Roque. Lawrence Amelia is an Englishman.
On this issue, Roque doesn't sell anyone's face, so whether Lawrence Amelia is British or not has nothing to do with Roque. Roque doesn't care at all.
Lawrence Amelia didn't dare to think so. Where is the fate of the former general manager of Antwerp Company? If he wants to stay in the position of general manager, he must have a good relationship with Roque. So since taking office half a month ago,
, Lawrence Amelia has been staying in Johannesburg, hoping to have a chance to communicate with Roque.
Rock is busy. The farm has begun trial planting of medicinal materials. The medical school and pharmaceutical factory are being built at the same time. The highway between Ziwei Town and Johannesburg is in full swing. In half a month, Rock and Phyllis will get married. It’s really not possible.
Mood to match Lawrence Amelia.
By the way, there are also motorcycles.
In the end, the two motorcycles that Rock brought back could not withstand the destruction of the gangsters. In less than a week, the two motorcycles collapsed one after another and were sent back to the motorcycle repair station next to the police station for repairs.
This maintenance station is of course prepared for the Johannesburg Police Department. In the future, the Johannesburg Police Department will be a major customer of motorcycle factories. The motorcycle factory must do everything possible to ensure the use of vehicles by the police station.
Although there are still problems with motorcycles at this stage, motorcycles have won the unanimous love of black brothers. There are more than 200 African-American police officers in the police station. Whether they are on duty or off duty, there are always people watching the motorcycles at the playground.
For the test, what Rock brought back to the police station were two three-wheeled motorcycles with sidecars. The sidecars were detachable. I don’t know who accidentally discovered this secret, so the sidecars of the two motorcycles were all removable.
It was dismantled, and the result was a bit disastrous. Rather than saying that the motorcycle was broken, it was better to say that it was smashed. These gangsters are really big-hearted. Some people dare to turn the accelerator all the way as soon as they touch the motorcycle.
, even if you don’t fall to death, it’s a good fortune.
After Roark learned about this situation, he placed an additional order for 50 more motorcycles from the motorcycle factory. Given the current production scale of the motorcycle factory, the order from the police station alone would keep Bobby Holt and others busy for a month.
At the end of May, the first batch of ten motorcycles was officially delivered to the police station.
This batch of motorcycles all have black bodies, with the police badge painted on one side of the fuel tank and the "South African Mastiff", the mascot of the Johannesburg Police Department, on the other side. The overall style was determined by Rock.
It should be reminded that this batch of motorcycles are all three-wheeled motorcycles with sidecars, and the sidecars are not removable.
Even so, Rock was still shocked by the destructive power of the African-American police, so all these motorcycles were allocated to the commandos, and the gangsters could only covet them.
"When will we learn to cherish public property, and when will we equip you with motorcycles? Otherwise, you will never touch them in this life. If you really like them, buy them with your own money. It's not like you don't know Bobby." Rock said.
Seriously, you guys have to change their character, otherwise you won't be able to attract people in your life.
In fact, compared with ordinary gangsters, the gangsters of the Johannesburg Police Department are pretty good. Rock's way of treating the gangsters is a stick and a carrot. They eat and drink well when they don't make mistakes, but they also treat them when they make mistakes.
Accept punishment, and compared with Chinese police and Boer police, the standard of punishment is even harsher.
In fact, as long as they are strictly managed, the performance of the African-American police is good. At least in Johannesburg, there is no need to take advantage of others, and there is no evasion. The rules and regulations of the police station are very strict, and the gangsters can generally discipline themselves.
Of course, under normal circumstances, black people are still very impulsive. Motorcycles are a special case. I don’t know if it’s because the color of the motorcycle is similar to the skin color of the black people. When the black people see the motorcycle, they are very impulsive.
Just like seeing relatives, Xiao Hei actually took the two dismantled sidecars back to his dormitory and slept in the sidecars at night.
What a speechless hobby. I love the sidecar so much, why did I dismantle it in the first place?!!!
"Sir" Yaya now calls Luo Ke in Chinese, and he is also smooth and polished, and his intonation is not bad at all. If Yaya can put this thought into work, it won't be long before Yaya can be promoted to inspector.
Of course, it’s just this title, and the next step is still in broken English. It’s been more than a year, and there has been no progress at all: “Sir, if I can find sponsorship, can I buy a motorcycle directly?”
Sponsorship is very common in Johannesburg. When Rock built the police station, he sought sponsorship from the mine owners in Johannesburg.
"Where did you get the sponsorship?" Luo Ke was very curious. If Yaya dared to use the banner of the police station to cheat, Luo Ke would really kill him.
"That Belgian guy who comes to see you every day, yesterday he said that he would sponsor a batch of motorcycles for our police station." Yaya happily recruited them, and it seemed that he had taken a lot of benefits from Lawrence Amelia.
"What did the Belgians give you? You just helped him speak." Roque remained calm.
"No, no, no, I didn't even take the cigarette he handed me." Yaya knew Roque's attitude in this regard and hurriedly clarified.
Luo Ke didn't talk nonsense, leaning back in his chair and staring at Yaya.
Yaya felt terrified because she was being stared at. After thinking about it for a while, she took the initiative to explain: "We just had dinner together a few times, and the Belgian said that as long as I can help him create an opportunity, he will definitely pay me."
"Have you given it?" Rock asked.
"Not yet" Yaya realized something was wrong.
"Are you stupid? Just because of a promise that has not yet been fulfilled, you were held at gunpoint. Is your mind filled with water? I thought I had given you many benefits, but I didn't expect that I would kill you with just a few meals.
If you buy it, you are stupider than a pig." Rock kept talking, displaying Ade's ability to curse, and scolded Yaya bloody.
Yaya was crestfallen, but the expression on his face turned out to be a bit happy. Rock looked even more annoyed, so he simply let Tang En in and sent Yaya directly to the dark room.
Others regard the small dark room as a den of dragons and tigers, but Yaya couldn't help but feel a little happy, as if being locked up was a glorious thing. She didn't forget to get close to Tang En when she went out, and in exchange for Tang En's "You deserve it!"
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Roque had a headache. It was a hell to have such a living treasure on display.
Returning to Ziwei Town in the evening, Bobby Holt came to see Rock, and Lawrence Amelia actually went to the motorcycle factory to pay the remaining car payment for the police station.
Rock ordered a total of 100 motorcycles, and only paid 20% of the vehicle price. The remaining vehicle payments will be paid one after another. This is not a small amount, and the total price is close to 30,000 pounds.
This is just the cost price. Both Rock and Bobby Holt want to use the police station to advertise motorcycles. When they are officially sold, the price will increase again. Considering the income level of people in this era, motorcycles
The price is indeed not cheap, much more expensive than ordinary riding horses.
"Mr. Amelia not only wants to help the police station pay the balance, but also wants to order motorcycles from the factory. Our workers are becoming more and more skilled and the output is getting higher and higher. By next month, our monthly output will be
We can exceed 100 vehicles, and they can be sold to the outside world at that time, but before that, we still need to build more maintenance points and gas stations, not only in Johannesburg, but also in Pretoria and Bloemfontein." Bao
Bobby Holt was also under great pressure. In order to produce motorcycles, Rock invested more than 50,000 pounds in the motorcycle factory. Just buying motorcycles for Bobby Holt and others to take apart and play with cost him ten dollars.
Multiple vehicles.
"You don't need to take care of repair stations and gas stations, or even production capacity. You can focus on researching cars and improving motorcycles, and leave other work to Nicholas." Rock still cares about cars.
There is nothing to worry about motorcycles now. The motorcycles in Ziwei Town are second to none even in Europe. Luo Ke is not worried about sales at all.
As for Nicholas, he is the general manager hired by the motorcycle factory. He once studied management at Oxford University and worked in a shipyard in the UK. Later, the shipyard closed down and Nicholas lost his job at home. Then he was hired by Roque to Ziweizhen with a high salary.
It needs to be emphasized that Nicholas is not responsible for the shipyard's collapse. The shipyard was a family-owned enterprise. It was not a very big shipyard to begin with. There were more managers than workers. There were also many people who were paid and did not work. As a result, the shipyard could not make ends meet.
Can go bankrupt.
In Ziwei Town, this kind of thing will definitely not happen. What Luo Ke hates the most is the layman commanding the expert. Some officials will suffocate to death if they don't express their opinions to increase their presence when encountering something. There are also families with complicated nepotism.
For a traditional enterprise, overstaffing and bloated organizations are just basic operations. Having multiple branches and interfering will lead to death.
"We have dismantled that car. You must not have imagined that the engine used in that car is not as good as the engine used in our motorcycles. No wonder a car needs a maintenance team. Under normal circumstances, that car
"Thank God if it can travel a hundred miles without any problems." Bobby Holt himself couldn't believe it. It turned out that Europe's craftsmanship was so backward.
In fact, it was Rock's high standards and strict requirements that gave Bobby Holt the confidence to despise European craftsmanship.
Objectively speaking, the European craftsmanship during this period was quite good, but whether it is good or not depends on who you compare it with. For example, "Made in Germany" is synonymous with shoddy manufacturing in Europe at present. Many German products entering the British market must be marked with "Made in Germany".
The "Made in Germany" nameplate is not to prove reliable quality, but to remind consumers: This is a German product, please be careful when buying it!
