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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 184 The Arrival of V/1500 Big Mac

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    Another good news at the end of November 1917 was that the second deep well of the Renqiu Oilfield of the China-US Petroleum Company, "China-US No. 2", was successfully drilled at the end of November. A huge amount of oil spewed out at a depth of 2,988 meters.  column, it was estimated that the daily crude oil production reached 1,800 tons, and one month later it once again set a new record for the daily crude oil production of a single well in China!

    At the same time, the land acquisition and exploration area of ??Renqiu Oilfield has also expanded from 1,000 acres to 75,000 acres. Sino-American Petroleum Company has paid 3.75 million yuan for land acquisition alone. Of course, this is compared with the huge underground oil treasures.  It¡¯s not worth mentioning that in 1917, the market price of an acre of prime farmland in China was only around 40 yuan.

    Sino-US oil companies will all charge a 25% premium to the market for land acquisition. No one will refuse. In fact, according to the relevant legal documents of the Department of Civil Affairs of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, landowners are not allowed to block enterprises registered with the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce because of their land ownership.  Mineral exploration and mining powers.

    Another good news came at the end of November 1917. The equipment of the Sino-American Petroleum Company's Xuanhua Refinery in the Chahar Xuanhua Mining Area was completed and debugged. Following the Renqiu Refinery, it was also successfully put into operation.  Before the pipeline is laid, Sino-US Petroleum Corporation will transport crude oil from the Renqiu Oilfield to the Xuanhua Mining Area through special tank trains through the Beijing-Hankong and Beijing-Suiyuan Railways.

    The two wells in the Renqiu Oilfield currently produce 2,800 tons of crude oil per day, which is equivalent to a daily crude oil production of more than 20,000 barrels. The combined design daily refining capacity of the 500,000-ton Renqiu Refinery and the 500,000-ton Xuanhua Refinery has just reached the daily refining capacity.  20,000 barrels, not to mention that the two refineries have just been successfully debugged and put into trial production, and their production capacity can only reach about 70% of the designed capacity. Therefore, if we do not continue to import equipment to increase the refinery production capacity, the crude oil production of the two wells in Renqiu Oilfield will actually be  We have to limit production.

    The two refineries owned by Sino-US Petroleum had a combined daily refining capacity of 14,000 barrels at the end of November, with daily production of 7,800 barrels of gasoline, 2,200 barrels of diesel, and 2,200 barrels of kerosene.  Converted to gallons, that's 327,600 gallons of gasoline, 92,400 gallons of diesel and the same amount of kerosene.

    Wang Geng¡¯s participating troops had an unquenchable desire for gasoline. The first phase of the US aid order was originally scheduled to purchase 1,000 Dodge 1-ton semi-trucks.  There are 2,000 Ford TT 1-ton multi-purpose vehicles and 2,000 Ford Model T vehicles. In fact, he has placed numerous additional orders. The total number of actual arrivals in the seven batches of US aid has reached 3,200 Dodge 1-ton semi-trucks respectively.  3,200 Ford TT utility vehicles and 3,200 Ford Model T vehicles.

    The Ford Model T became the standard vehicle for cadres above the company level and replaced horseback riding. This vehicle was far from enough for the Army's 390,000 integrated divisions within the entire participating army establishment.

    The organization of the model army participating in the war is that one integrated division is under the jurisdiction of three mixed brigades, one division is under the heavy artillery regiment, and one division is under the wheeled armor regiment. Each mixed brigade is under the jurisdiction of three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one armored battalion, and one engineering battalion.  In a barracks and a supply camp, each cannon is trailered by a Dodge 1-ton semi-truck. A mixed brigade with 72 cannons requires 72 Dodge trucks. In addition, the brigade's armored battalion has 36 wheeled armored fighting vehicles, and the engineer battalion also has 36  There are 36 Ford utility vehicles and 36 Dodge trucks.

    This mixed brigade does not count the Ford T-type command vehicles equipped with cadres above the company. The mechanization level of this mixed brigade has reached 180 vehicles. A reorganized division has 540 vehicles for three mixed brigades alone, plus the division's heavy artillery regiment.  54 Dodge trucks, plus 108 wheeled armored vehicles of the division's armored regiment, the total number of load-carrying vehicles and wheeled armored vehicles of a division is 702, plus 220 Ford T-type command vehicles, the equipment of a division of the participating army  Nearly a thousand cars.

    After the establishment of China Fudao Automobile Company, under the leadership of Frederic Heines, it has successfully assembled 50 Dodge 1-ton semi-trucks and 50 Ford TT 1-ton utility vehicles in the past month. The two imported V6V8 engines  The engine production workshop is still being installed and debugged.

    Since there is no corresponding domestic manufacturer of automobile supporting parts, China Fudao Company continues to import parts from the United States for assembly, while simultaneously looking for suitable tire supporting suppliers in China.  Other steel raw materials are purchased from Han Yeping.  Suppliers of car lights and interior seats were established in Beijing and Tianjin, and semi-finished product warehouses, final assembly workshops, engine production workshops, chassis workshops, painting workshops, etc. were also established successively.

    After the Zhangjiakou Fengzhen to Guisui section of the Beijing-Suiyuan Railway was officially completed at the end of October 1917, by the end of November, the railway project from Ulanqab to Erlian had been repaired to 160 kilometers, and it is expected to be completed in early January next year  The 315-kilometer railway from Ulanqab to the Second Company Military Station. As for the highway, it was connected and widened to the Second Company a month ago. This month, the highway from the Second Company to Kulun has been widened and reinforced to 100 kilometers inside Outer Mongolia.  , of course, there are still 580 kilometers of work to be carried out to widen and renovate it to Kulun.

    This month, the 149-kilometer railway project from Guisui to Baotou has progressed nearly 40 kilometers in a month due to the relatively good terrain conditions along the Hetao plain area, and from Bayannur along the Hetao south to Yinchuan and then  ArriveThe railway exploration project in Yuzhou is also in full swing under the leadership of Zhan Tianyou himself.

    Another good news at the end of January 1917 was that the second batch of 72 SE5 fighters, 72 DH4 reconnaissance bombers and 72 Handley Page 0/400 aircraft purchased from the United Kingdom successfully arrived at Tianjin Port by sea.  In addition to the three types of aircraft, there are two Handley Page V/1500 four-engine heavy bombers that Wang Geng bought at a high price just after completing their test flights.

    The price of the v/1500 heavy bomber is as high as 42,000 US dollars each. It is a new follow-up model of the 0/400. In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, this heavy bomber originally had to wait until June next year to appear on the battlefield. Now it may be a butterfly effect.  Because of this, we had a prototype test flight model more than half a year in advance, and it was even bought by Wang Geng!

    The v/1500 is equipped with 4 Eagle viii liquid-cooled engines, which can be called the aerial giant of this era!  In fact, in Wang Geng's previous life, a total of 63 of this aircraft were produced and the war ended.

    Handley.Page v/1500

    Crew members: 5 to 7 people

    Maximum flight speed: 159 km/h

    Maximum range: 2090 kilometers

    Maximum battery life: 12 hours

    Maximum take-off weight: 14 tons

    Maximum load: 6 tons

    Practical ceiling: 3350 meters

    Weapons: 3x0.303 (7.7mm) Lewis machine guns, installed on the nose, back and tail of the aircraft

    Can carry bombs: up to 7,500 lbs (3,400 kg) bombs (30 x 250lb/113 kg aerial bombs)

    In the era of 1917, this belated British v/1500 aircraft was Wang Geng¡¯s favorite, and it could be called the b52 flying fortress of this era!  The task Wang Geng gave Wang Zhu and Bayama Zao focused on copying the Eagle VIII V12 engine of Ross-Royce.

    As the former chief engineer of the Boeing Aircraft Company, Wang Zhu, and the chief engineer of the Wright Aircraft Company, Ba Yuzao, have to find suitable engine manufacturing materials based on the production drawings and processes provided by Ross-Royce.  Eagle vii and eagle viii aircraft engines are copied and produced!

    With a complete set of drawings, molds and production equipment, these two first-class aircraft engineers of this era are full of confidence. The metal materials or other raw materials that are temporarily lacking in the country will be sold in the United States through Manhattan Industrial Bank.  Purchase first.

    Before the raw materials were finalized, two senior officials from the aviation department of the participating military forces plunged into the digestion, absorption and imitation of the v/1500 aircraft according to Wang Geng's instructions. After the assembly of one hundred sets of Eagle viii engines that came with the production drawings,  , enough to produce 25 v/1500s!
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