Chapter 274 Water Tanks and Tanks

The Royal Dockyard is about to start building two unified-class strategic cruisers, named the first ship Unification and Peace, and officially started construction in mid-January this year.

Because the main task of the Royal Dockyard this year is to build these two fast cruisers, the construction speed of these two warships will be slightly faster. It is expected that they can be completed in October this year at the earliest, and it should not exceed December at the latest.

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the warship, Arthur found the person in charge of the Royal Dockyard and asked the same questions as he asked Director Theodore in the Aviation Laboratory before.

The person in charge of the Royal Dockyard did not boast. After thinking carefully and carefully for a while, he gave Arthur an answer that he could try.

After getting the answer, Arthur nodded with satisfaction and ordered the person in charge of the Royal Dockyard to connect with the Aviation Research Laboratory.

The research and development of aircraft carriers cannot be separated from the joint efforts of the shipyard and the Aviation Research Laboratory. It must not only meet the requirements of short-distance takeoff of aircraft, but also make its combat capability and design more reasonable.

The specific design and experiments will be left to the Aviation Laboratory and the shipyard to worry about! For Arthur, he only needs to come up with an idea, and there are many people who really put it into practice.

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony of the two warships, Arthur officially approached the members of the International Olympic Committee at the end of January and held a large banquet to welcome their arrival.

After a welcome banquet, Minister Grant and the International Olympic Committee rushed to the designated area of ​​the Australasian National Stadium.

The International Olympic Committee is quite satisfied with the arrangement of Australasia. After all, the International Olympic Committee's requirement is only to build a stadium that can accommodate a maximum of 40,000 people. If it follows the plan of Australasia, the National Stadium will be a super-large stadium that can accommodate 50,000 people, far exceeding the requirements of the International Olympic Committee.

In order to build the National Stadium, the Australasian government spared no expense to hire well-known designers and construction companies from all over Europe and the United States, in order to build a national stadium that can be used for hundreds of years. Even if the stadium is no longer used in the future, it can serve as a historical witness to witness the development of Australasia over the past century.

It is not an easy task to determine the design of the stadium. After all, after the completion of the National Stadium of Australia, it will be one of the landmarks of Australia and also the external symbol of Australia's sports.

This also means that the design requirements of the stadium are very strict. It should not only reflect the good side of the country, but also be novel and innovative enough to attract more people.

Under the coordination of the International Committee and Minister Grant, major construction companies and designers took more than a month to decide on the final preliminary design.

During this period, most of the time was spent arguing about which design was better. There were even two construction companies arguing about this. Of course, it is not ruled out that one of them was British and the other was German.

After the design was determined, the next most important task was definitely to enter the construction.

Arthur and Prime Minister Walter, Minister Kent, and many ministers attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the National Stadium. Arthur also delivered an important speech at the groundbreaking ceremony, stating how important sports are to the comprehensive and diversified development of Australia, and encouraging and calling on more Australians to participate in the development of sports, and to make some contributions to the country on the premise of strengthening their bodies.

According to Minister Grant's report, there were thousands of Australasians who wanted to sign up to become athletes just on the day Arthur's speech ended.

However, the selection of athletes must not be arbitrary. They need to go through strict physical and talent screening, and those young people who are loyal to the emperor and patriotic will be given priority.

Minister Grant was relieved by Arthur's speech. As the speech began to spread across the country, there was no need to worry about the number of athletes.

Minister Grant even suspected that if the sports department relaxed the number of athletes to be recruited, the number of athletes in Australasian might exceed tens of thousands at any time.

This sounds crazy, but it is really unnecessary. You know, even the Olympic Games with the largest number of athletes only had more than 2,000 people.

And the London Olympics, which had the largest number of athletes from a single country, the UK only sent more than 700 athletes.

There are only one, two or three in the sports industry, but there are no participation awards or consolation prizes. Therefore, the selection of athletes is more about quality than quantity.

Minister Grant spent a lot of effort to select nearly 500 teenagers who seemed to have good physical fitness and talent from the tens of thousands of applicants. Together with more than 100 athletes who had participated in the last Olympic Games, a lineup of more than 600 athletes was formed to prepare for the next Sydney Games held in Australia and Australia.

There are still nearly two and a half years before the Sydney Games. Minister Grant sent these more than 600 athletes to a specific place for secret training.

I believe that more than two years will allow these athletes to train fruitfully. Minister Grant's requirements are not high. As long as one in ten of these more than 600 athletes can win medals, it will meet Minister Grant's expectations.

It is worth mentioning that Minister Grant also spent a part of the funds to ask some officials of the National Committee for methods to quickly train athletes, so that the training athletes can take some shortcuts.

Fortunately, sports training is not so formal now, and most of it relies on instinct and physical fitness.

In March 1910, the construction of the National Stadium of Australia officially began. The construction of the stadium is expected to take twenty months, but it may be extended to about twenty-four months.

This also means that the stadium will be completed in March 1912 at the latest, and it can barely be put into use before the opening of the Olympic Games in June 1912.

The construction of the hotel, various facilities and roads supporting the stadium is expected to be completed at the earliest from late 1911 to the end of 1911, and will not be delayed until March 1912 at the latest.

The construction period is planned and predicted in detail by major construction companies and designers, and it will basically not exceed the predicted range.

For the construction of this stadium, Arthur was very generous, with an initial budget of 6 million Australian dollars and a reserve budget of 4 million Australian dollars, which can be added at any time.

Arthur has only one requirement, that is, to ensure quality and quantity and complete the construction on time.

Such requirements are relatively relaxed for construction companies, so these construction companies are more enthusiastic about their work.

In addition, with the input of many indigenous people, a lot of labor and manpower are saved, which also reduces the construction cost of the stadium.

In April, Arthur went to the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory on the outskirts of Sydney to inspect the recent situation of the machinery factory.

Of course, nominally, Arthur's arrival was to inspect the construction of tractors and the specific situation related to tractors at the Royal Agricultural Machinery Factory.

Since tractors began to be widely used in some parts of Australasia a few years ago, tractors have become an integral part of the development of Australasia's agriculture.

People were surprised to find that tractors used for ploughing can not only greatly reduce the consumption of labor, but even tractors can plough better land than human labor.

At the same time, tractors can also be used for some work such as harvesting. In addition to being a little more expensive and consuming fuel, this is simply a hardworking serf, and a very strong serf.

So far, Australia has more than 1,000 agricultural tractors, of which more than 70% are on state-owned farms or royal farms in Australasia.

Tractors have played a significant role in the substantial increase in food production in Australasia.

But Arthur would not personally inquire about a small tractor. What really concerned Arthur and made him come in person was actually the first generation of tanks that the agricultural machinery factory researched and manufactured under the name of researching tractors.

Of course, the reason why this guy is called a tank is that in order to keep the research confidential, the agricultural machinery factory called this guy that looks like an iron cabinet for transporting water resources a water cabinet, which is tank in English.

After Arthur's approval, this guy, which has no similarity to a tractor in actual use, was officially named a tank.

The tanks researched and manufactured by the agricultural machinery factory are taller than normal tractors.

From the outside, except for a layer of thick steel plate on the surface, it is actually no different from a tractor.

Of course, because of the steel plate covering, there is only a small observation hole in front of the tank, and other places are basically closed.

Above the tank, a long muzzle stretched out, and the dark muzzle seemed to be able to capture people's souls.

This tank has a total of four official crew members, a driver, a commander, a gunner, and a loader.

Under normal circumstances, the commander is also the commander and the observer of the entire tank, standing in the only observation port left in the tank.

The driver sits in the front position inside the tank and operates the entire tank in the same way as a tractor.

The gunner is responsible for firing and aiming the 75mm howitzer on top of the tank, while also taking into account the use of the machine gun on the top of the tank.

Of course, if you want to use the machine gun on the top, you must stick half of your body out of the tank, which is bound to be dangerous.

The simplest task of the loader is to load the gun in the tank. The magazine and the gun are on the left and right sides of the loader, and the loader does not need to move to load.

The observer of the tank, that is, the commander, is responsible for commanding the entire tank to move forward and fire.

The observer observes the position and direction of the tank through the observation port left, and orders his three men to perform corresponding actions.

The four crew members complement each other and jointly maintain the operation of the entire tank.

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