The happy time was short-lived. While persuading his father to give up the idea of joining the war, Edel learned that his father was in ill health and his end was approaching. After spending a whole day with his father, Carol I, he had to pick up the current stressful affairs.
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After Edel fought for Romania's war chest, Volkswagen, as Romania's leading company, fell into a heated environment. In the office of Volkswagen General Manager Minoba, he was very busy.
"Hey, is this General Manager Katuraski? We need 10,000 tons of steel this month. The price is easy to say. If you want to go up, you can go up, no problem. Now we have too many orders and we must need so much steel, otherwise it will be over.
It’s not an order. Thank you. I’ll treat you to a big dinner when you’re free. No problem. Then I’ll treat you to French food.”
Minoba put down the phone call he had just made to the steel plant. Before he could take a breath, the phone rang again.
"Hey, it's me. France has an order for 20,000 1.5-ton trucks. You tell them whether the price has increased. You also need to tell them that it will take 3 months to pick up the goods. Our current production capacity can only reach so much. If he is not satisfied
, I told him that the order at the top was from Germany, and that he was to blame for placing the order late. He also wanted to buy more than 800 5-ton heavy trucks in our inventory, and told him that they had been taken away by the British and Germans, and
The order has been scheduled for 3 months. If you want to buy it, please hurry up. If it is later, it will probably be 6 months later."
After Minoba put down the phone, the door to his office opened with a loud bang. The startled Minoba took a closer look and saw that it was the production supervisor Draspa who walked out with sweat on his face.
came in. Seeing Draspa's rude actions, Minoba, as the general manager, rarely suppressed his anger and asked, "What's so urgent?"
Draspa, who did not hear Minopa's dissatisfaction, touched the sweat on his forehead with his hand and wiped it on the leather sofa as he passed by. Seeing the action of the production supervisor, Minopa, as his boss, felt
His veins were throbbing. But what Draspa said when he walked up to him made him forget about his sofa. "The factory has too many truck orders now, and even the shift can't complete the task. What should we do?"
After hearing what Draspa said, Minoba replied without thinking, "Then go and recruit people."
Regarding his boss's suggestion, De La Espa immediately explained, "I have already sent people out to recruit people, but now the truck production line is running at full capacity, and no matter how many people there are, it won't work."
After hearing De La Espa's explanation, Minoba knew that the production supervisor probably had an idea and just needed his own nod. He immediately asked, "What else can you do now."
De La Espa immediately said the two methods he had prepared. "There are two methods now. First, build a new truck production line, but it requires purchasing equipment now, building a new factory building, transporting the equipment, debugging and training workers, at least
It takes three months. This is after we are already proficient in the work, and the workers can get started quickly with familiarity."
When Minoba heard that it would take three months, he immediately interrupted him. "Just tell me the second plan."
After being interrupted by his boss, De La Espa immediately said the second solution he wanted. "That is to transform the existing production lines so that they can be converted into trucks. We have studied how to convert the existing Model T cars into
It only takes about 10 days to convert the production line into a 1.5-ton truck production line. Many of the modified equipment can be purchased domestically, and only a small amount needs to be purchased from abroad. And the cost is not too expensive, only about 13 million lei.
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Regarding De La Espa's request to change the Model T car production line to produce 1.5-ton trucks, Minoba began to think about it in his own mind. This is a perfect family vehicle that can seat two people and carry half a ton of cargo. It can run very fast.
, he is still very emotional. And the most important thing is that this car has brought Volkswagen and Ford to the throne of the two largest automobile manufacturers in the world. This is the reason why he likes this car.
However, now that the war in Europe has broken out, all countries are busy fighting. The sales volume of the passenger car market has dropped by 70%. As the king of this market, the Model T is no exception, and its sales volume has also dropped by 65%. Inside the Volkswagen factory
Two of the three Model T car production lines have already entered a semi-stop state. What's more important is that they don't know how long this war will last, which makes Minoba, the head of Volkswagen, anxious.
Fortunately, the passenger car market has shrunk due to the war, and the trucks that can be used for military transportation have been able to accommodate him because of the war. Otherwise, he would have been looking for ways to find a place with air conditioning.
Sitting comfortably in the room.
After thinking for a while, Minoba said to Deraspa, who was standing in front of him, waiting for a reply. "You have someone make a modified production plan. I need to see it before I can make a decision."
De La Espa immediately took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to his boss with a smile and said, "I've already asked someone to prepare the plan and it's here."
Seeing the production supervisor's crooked smile, Minoba scolded him for no reason. "If it weren't for your outstanding ability, I would have told you to get out of here."
Delaspa, who smiled even brighter, had long been familiar with his boss's temper. He knew that this was just a show of love for him, but he didn't forget to retaliate. "It's just that you can't bear to be such a capable supervisor like me."
Ignoring the production manager who was acting presumptuously in front of him, Minoba opened the transformation plan that was full of sweat and read it. On it were the crooked words written by Draspa, but Minoba was looking at the transformation plan.
result.
In the entire transformation plan, for the existing three T-type car production lines, De La Espa suggested transforming two of the latest production lines. Among them, the production line with an annual output of 32,000 T-type cars has been extended, installed and renovated.
After the equipment eliminates unnecessary processes, it can produce 24,000 1.5-ton trucks per year. Another T-type car production line with an annual output of 27,000 vehicles will also reach an annual production capacity of 21,000 vehicles after the transformation is completed.
However, in this plan, De La Espa mentioned that if it is converted into a truck production line, if it is converted back to the production of Model T cars, the gains outweigh the losses. The two production lines that were originally able to produce 59,000 Model T cars will be lost if they are converted back to production.
With a production capacity of only 43,000 units, it is better to replace them with new ones.
After reading the transformation plan prepared by De La Espa, Minoba was also worried about gains and losses. This was obviously betting on the length of the war. If the European war lasted for more than a year, then the transformation would be a huge profit.
If it is completed within a month, then the two reconstructed truck production lines will be considered useless.
Minoba walked back and forth thinking, and Draspa looked at his boss and knew that this was not an easy decision. If he made the wrong choice, Volkswagen, which should have been very profitable this year, would probably be busy in vain. Minoba himself
He also knew that if he made the wrong choice, the renovation costs and the purchase of new production lines would wipe out this year's profits, but he thought of the piled up truck orders and made his decision.
"Go ahead and renovate those two Model T car production lines. I hope they can last more than a year."
After receiving the answer, Draspa nodded and said, "Okay, boss, I will have my men work overtime to modify it, so that the production of the truck will not be delayed."
After saying that, Draspa walked out of Minopa's office, leaving his boss who had just made up his mind.
Of course, Volkswagen is not the only example of Romania receiving war dividends. There are now too many Romanian companies that have gained huge profits due to this war. Some of them took the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, while others were unwilling to make progress and were eliminated after the war.
Competitors were overwhelmed. However, this war also gave Romania's newly developed industrial system enough profits, allowing the sapling called industrialization planted by Edel with his own hands to grow rapidly.
However, the most profitable industries are certainly not the automobile manufacturing industry, but other industries related to the war.
