As the largest carriage workshop in the Tang Dynasty, the Mercedes-Benz four-wheel carriage workshop has a relatively high status in the business district of the Tang Dynasty.

Although there is no way to compare with steam engine workshops and iron smelting workshops, it is definitely a top-notch existence.

Many of the parts used on the carriage are purchased from professional parts workshops in the workshop.

The famous Shuijun Production and Changan Precision are its suppliers.

While Michelin and Wang Heng came in from outside the door, they met many other workshops who came to the Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage workshop to do business, and they could feel the gap between them more deeply.

Fortunately, whether it was Wang Fugui or Song Bingyin, he did not show off his arrogant attitude in front of them.

"Shopkeeper Mi, is this wheel the new type of wheel you mentioned before?"

There was no politeness or greetings. After everyone met, Song Bingyin stared straightforwardly at the parts that Michelin had just brought.

Obviously, this is a carriage wheel.

From the appearance alone, it is different from the wheels used in any carriage now.

"Shopkeeper Wang, Master Song, this is a tire that transcends the era developed by our Michelin Rubber Workshop and Guanshishan Academy Rubber Research Institute.

We have conducted tests inside the workshop and used our tires to make the comfort performance significantly improved.

Especially when the carriage passes through roads that are not particularly good, the effect is even more obvious.”

Michelin has confirmed the performance of its own products, and now she wants to introduce Song Bingyin, which is naturally full of confidence.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, both Wang Fugui and Song Bingyin showed great interest.

"I remember the last time you said you were studying a carriage wheel called a pneumatic tire. Is it the thing in front of you?"

Song Bingyin looked at Wang Fugui and confirmed that he had no intention of standing up to dominate the situation. He communicated with Michelin at his own pace.

"Yes, it's this pneumatic tire! The previous rubber wheels were made of rubber, and they were actually not very ideal in terms of weight or shock absorption performance.

At most it is just a little better than completely steel or wooden wheels.

However, the pneumatic tire we improved completely subverted the making of any wheel in the past.

In order to ensure comfort, we must also ensure the strength and wear resistance of our wheels.

The structure of this pneumatic tire is divided into three parts.

The innermost steel ring serves as a support function to ensure that even if there is a problem with the pneumatic tire, the carriage can still perform the most basic operation.

The outermost layer is the outer tire, which is the part that plays a main contact with the ground. It not only needs to consider wear resistance, but also needs to consider various aspects such as strength and anti-slip.

Although this outer tire doesn't look outstanding, we actually made it with a unique process.

Of course, the most important thing about pneumatic tires can play an ideal role is that they are in the middle of this wheel, which we call them inner tubes.

It is a rubber component that can be inflatable, which can greatly improve the shock absorption performance of the carriage.

Outside the workshop, I have asked my friend to prepare a carriage with our new pneumatic tires. If you are interested in Manager Song, you can let the carriage come in and let you take a test drive."

Michelin confidently introduced the wheel in his hand.

Not to mention, combined with the tone of this physical object and Michelin's speech, the persuasiveness is quite strong.

"According to your opinion, the main shock absorption effect of pneumatic tires is accomplished through air?"

Although Michelin had talked about pneumatic tires to Song Bingyin before, Song Bingyin did not take it seriously at that time.

Now that the samples have been released, he naturally needs to further clarify the situation.

As a craftsman in charge, he would not deliberately pretend to understand and show a very professional look just because Wang Fugui is right next to him.

“Yes, although we know that rubber has a good shock absorption effect, we have used rubber wheels before to improve the shock absorption performance of carriages and bicycles.

However, no matter how good the shock absorption performance of rubber is, it cannot compare to air.

You can imagine that when the wheels of the carriage pass through some uneven ground,

The difference between wheels is made of steel and rubber support.

Then think about what it would feel if it were pneumatic tires like us.

Do you feel intuitively that the unevenness on the ground has been filtered out a lot by the air inside the tires?”

Michelin explains in a tempting way.

Sure enough, Song Bingyin asked very well: "It really seems that the shock absorption performance has been greatly improved.

That's it, didn't you say that there were already carriages loaded with real cars outside?

Let's just go out and experience it now."

Regardless of what Michelin said was that the ceiling was full of things, without physical confirmation, or personal test drive, Song Bingyin could not directly believe that the effect of the pneumatic tires was so good.

"No problem! If you have any luck, the shopkeeper Song arranged for someone to say hello to the guard at the door and asked the coachman in our workshop to drive the carriage in."

Michelin came here today to let Song Bingyin experience the real car experience, otherwise he wouldn't have gotten all the carriages over.

So he agreed without any hesitation about this question.

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As a professional carriage workshop, the Mercedes-Benz four-wheel carriage workshop naturally has its own test road and various experimental equipment.

When Song Bingyin personally became the coachman and drove the Mercedes-Benz four-wheeled carriage that he was familiar and somewhat unfamiliar, he immediately felt the extraordinaryness of the carriage.

Especially when you quickly pass some small thresholds, the feeling becomes more intuitive.

In the past, whether it was rubber wheels or wooden wheels, when they directly crossed a threshold quickly, as long as the speed was slightly faster, the entire carriage felt like it was about to fly.

But now the amplitude has obviously dropped significantly. If the speed is not too exaggerated, I will no longer feel particularly large.

After all, the carriages in this day and age are not like cars in later generations, and they can always speed up to more than fifty kilometers per hour.

"Shopkeeper Wang, what do you think of this carriage?"

After walking a few laps on his own runway, Song Bingyin stopped the carriage.

At this time, he did not express his opinion in a hurry, but instead wanted to listen to Wang Fugui's opinions.

Of course, from a certain perspective, this is also considered to be Song Bingyin seeking credit from Wang Fugui.

The improvement I just mentioned has been realized now.

Look, I'm not lying, are you?

"This rubber tire, you can continue to do some testing to see how the safety performance impacts are.

Since it is inflatable, air leakage will inevitably occur.

If you are driving at high speed on the road, the tire suddenly leaks, or you encounter something elite to break the outer and inner tubes.

At this time, there will definitely be an imbalance on the left and right sides of the carriage.

Once this happens, will the carriage overturn and will it lose control? What countermeasures need to be taken?

These are all things you need to consider.

If all these problems can be solved well, then I fully support the use of this pneumatic tire in the carriage workshop."

Wang Fugui has to ride in a carriage every day.

He has a great say in how comfortable a carriage is and how shock absorption performance is.

Obviously, the carriage just now brought him a different experience.

"No problem. I will communicate with Manager Mi later, and then arrange a series of tests on these pneumatic tires to ensure that they can be used on our carriage as soon as possible."

At this time, Song Bingyin naturally patted his chest obediently.

"In fact, there is another advantage of our pneumatic tires, which is that it can greatly reduce the amount of rubber used on rubber wheels, thereby reducing our workshop's dependence on externally purchased materials."

Wang Heng has never spoken much.

He had no experience in dealing with such commercial meetings, so he naturally let Michelin take over.

But as the matter seemed to be almost done, he stood up and added something.

Judging from the current situation of the Tang Dynasty, it is definitely the most developed country in the world.

The things used by the people in their daily lives, except for a few things such as spices, are purchased from overseas, and most of them are produced within the Tang Dynasty.

Take this carriage for example. Except for the rubber, which is shipped overseas, all other materials and processing were completed in the Tang Dynasty.

Under such a premise, rubber needs to be purchased from overseas. Whether it can reduce its dependence on rubber is something that many shops responsible for purchasing need to consider.

Wang Heng, who realized this, deliberately pointed out the situation.

“Although the weight of the rubber used in this pneumatic tire is less than half the previous rubber wheel.

However, the rubber wheels were only used on a small number of carriages, but pneumatic tires were likely to be used on more carriages.

At that time, it is hard to say whether the demand for rubber parts in our workshop has decreased or increased."

How could Wang Heng plays with business tactics be Wang Fugui's opponent?

But after hearing what Wang Heng said, he knew what Wang Heng wanted to express behind his back.

"What Manager Wang said is very reasonable! Fortunately, our Tang Dynasty has built a large number of rubber plantations in Nanyang.
To be continued...