Chapter 1330 – The Importance of Finland

To show the importance, Alan Wilson brought his wife to the showroom of the Soviet goods exhibition, which was huge, with everything from heavy trucks to Soviet watches, and the two of them simmered around with interest to see what people in another world could use.

“You’re taking this show very seriously.” Pamela Mountbatten said as she took her husband’s hand and walked around, “It does seem that the problems at home are more serious, with all the attention being focused on Eastern Europe.”

“Traditionally, Eastern Europe has been an important source of raw materials for Western Europe. We cannot develop in isolation from Eastern Europe.” Alan Wilson replied flatly, “We can’t find new markets in a short period of time. We must try to return to the previous market, just as the Soviet Union is reforming, the external strategy of détente, France and Italy are secretly and the Soviet Union hooked up, we are too stupid if we do nothing. Now the problem on the mainland, which is worse than Malaya, Richard reported to me only the other day that last year’s statistics are in, and it’s going very well.”

“It’s the demand of the war, isn’t it, the oil refining centers in Singapore, the car manufacturing in Malacca, all of them have been brought up by the war to huge demand.” Pamela Mountbatten also knew about this because the Sarawak Development Bank was established by herself, and it was the demand and money brought up by the war that was the basis for her to dare to siphon off the funds from the Sarawak Development Bank and follow the French to fish in troubled waters.

Without the influx of dollars into Malaya, Pamela Mountbatten drained all the funds from the local banks, there will be a certain degree of risk, although not a big deal compared to the total assets of the richest woman, but it is inevitable that the hands of the war, with the war in Vietnam everything will be different again.

Under the current technology, the United Kingdom’s growth has entered a bottleneck, the first signs of economic stagnation, while Malaya also benefited from the outbreak of the Vietnam War, continue to soar.

Alan Wilson also knew that the several-fold income gap was bound to close over time, and there was no way around it.

“If we had fought for ten years, would Malaya’s economy have surpassed that of the mainland?” Pamela Mountbatten inquired with a smile, “At that time, are we considering where Malaya’s economic growth will be in the future?”

“That doesn’t need to be considered. It’s easier over there.” Alan Wilson shook his head, thinking that after the Vietnam War was fought and the US hadn’t put down the Soviet bloc’s number two hitter, it was going to be ready to discard the past.

At that point, would Malaya still lack a market? Once again take off is obvious, not only that, Alan Wilson has to help Malaya to ask for a little special treatment, in fact, there is nothing too much, a big country to benefit Xiangjiang, that should be even with the Malayan Chinese together benefit.

How much to Xiangjiang in accordance with the population base to Malaya how much, and must be confiscated from the former British capital back, multiplied by two on the line.

Considering the goodwill towards the Chinese world, Alan Wilson will not bring out the ugly face of imperialism, and the figure of double compensation is not excessive. A major country can refuse, with the establishment of the country after the development of technology exchange is also fine, for example, similar to the patent of photolithography to exchange.

Exchange to the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom can also point out the patent protection in passing, if those who have a good little life found out that there is no patent awareness, just wait for the wool to be pulled clean it.

Just opened up that time, a large country’s enterprises everywhere, almost by the Japanese swept clean, this loss can not be calculated.

Alan Wilson will then prepare a shared patent contract bundled with the investment intention, with the United Kingdom as the old imperialist to join, Japan wants to take advantage of the difficult to share is better than being whored out for nothing.

This is not to talk about losing or not losing, can you not pay a little price for changing your family, repeatedly jumping across the board without paying a price, there is such a good thing next time, be sure to tell him that he also wants to find such an environment.

The couple eventually stopped from in front of a very fighting people style truck, both pairs of eyes were full of interest in this model, “What do you think?”

“It seems like it would be reliable.” Allen Wilson gave this one word in a half-hearted manner, “Very old American.”

“An American product is a Soviet product on our side.” Pamela Mountbatten joked that traditional industrial America was not a match for Europe.

Pamela Mountbatten asked directly for details of this truck, and it was clear that the Soviet staff was also trained in English, which was powered by a d12a-525 water-cooled diesel engine with a displacement of 38.9 liters and a maximum power of 386 kilowatts, the same type as the engine in the main battle tank. The engine is followed by a splitter box and a hydro-mechanical transmission.

In order to improve the ability to pass on rough roads, the vehicle is equipped with a central tire inflation system. The suspension is torsion bar independent suspension, with double-acting cartridge dampers on the first and second axles. It adopts double circuit pneumatic-hydraulic braking system and hydraulic power steering system. The cab is equipped with independent heating system, engine preheater and three defense equipment.

With so many black technology additions, it makes the vehicle able to work in an ambient temperature range of -40 to 50c.

It can be loaded with 20 tons and run wildly at a maximum speed of 60 km/h. At the same time the car has a maximum slope climbing 57 degrees, vertical height of 0.78 meters over the barrier, over the trench width of 3.38 meters, wading depth of one meter outstanding ability. These indicators even more than the same period of many tracked vehicles, fully reflecting the excellent performance of this all-terrain heavy truck.

“The Soviets are very real. This must be a military-to-civilian product, or else this kind of index is a bit excessive for a civilian heavy truck.” Alan Wilson came over to talk to his wife, and the two exchanged a look that meant clearly, buy it and see what the Soviet Union has to offer uniquely in the automotive industry.

Continue to turn around in the exhibition, a group of onlookers in front of the attention of the two men, pulling his wife’s hand to squeeze in, a small car is supposed to be a cab is the culprit of the visitors to the onlookers, listening to the introduction of the Soviets, this is a kind of see-through taxicabs, as if it is an elongated version of the ordinary cabs, the appearance of a very peculiar, which is caused by the cause of the onlookers.

Alan Wilson also feel novelty, but he was not interested, because he remembered that this style of cab later generations have not seen, should belong to the category of concept cars.

Eventually Alan Wilson stopped in front of a row of Soviet-made cameras, he remembered something, the Soviet Union in the optical industry technology from Germany, and Germany is the strongest European optical industry, in this era than Japan is still much stronger, the Soviet Union’s optical technology should come from the period of cooperation with Germany before the station.

And now the German optics even if it can’t be compared, it should not be much worse, being made to look bad by Kodak is not a matter of this era, but a scene that only appeared in the late Soviet Union.

“What’s wrong?” Pamela Mountbatten came over and also saw the rows of cameras set up, for her she could enjoy the best in the world and didn’t realize what her husband was concerned about.

Alan Wilson had taken out the small notes he usually carried with him to jot them down, “Get ready to place an order for cameras to the USSR, German products are too expensive, the USSR is more reliable than Germany in this field.”

The USSR as a country was not short of everything, the program could not take care of everyone’s needs, some products the USSR was short of, but there were also some products the USSR was in an exaggerated surplus. This era of cameras, is the Soviet Union is a very surplus of a product.

The USSR’s initial fortune was made by the old German optical technology such as Zeiss and Leica. Eventually began to kill the original journey, the fact is that the Soviet Union cottage became rich, the production of cameras is ten times the German capacity, this brand of camera later named “Kiev” by the Soviet Union, of course, this camera because of the huge production capacity, became the people’s camera.

This kind of good things should be out of the Soviet Union to the world, just put in the Soviet Union is too bad, trade, is to take advantage of the shortcomings, which is also the purpose of the exhibition of Soviet goods.

Even the supreme authority is at all times for the benefit of British citizens, at the same time the five plainclothes not to learn from him, it is also good to learn from him? Naturally, they all followed his example and took down all the goods of interest.

A day apart, the Soviet goods exhibition rushed to the headlines of the major newspapers, the newspaper pictures of Soviet goods, aroused a lot of people’s interest, the exhibition will continue for another week, the fermentation in public opinion, caused more people to go to the Soviet exhibition hall.

Alan Wilson, with a list of more than fifty categorized goods, ranging from mechanical watches to cameras, children’s toys, to heavy trucks, and even lamps, all sorts of irrelevant goods, knocked on the door of 10 Downing Street to consult with Prime Minister Harold Wilson about the progress of economic and trade relations.

“You went to the showroom yourself?” Harold Wilson was a little surprised, then smiled and took the list while looking at it, “It looks like you’re very satisfied with all the goods you’re looking at.”

“More than satisfied, I feel that some products are obviously over-performing.” Alan Wilson pointed to the picture of the Soviet Union mechanical watch and said, “The Soviet Union claimed that this watch is waterproof, that is still in the normal category, but also claimed that the strength of more than two hundred meters of water pressure, which I am very puzzled, is it prepared to jump into the sea with the watch?”

“Cameras and German counterparts are sold at one-fifth the price, and any UK can afford it. We also have to admit that the enemy has something to learn.”

“There is no such thing as trade that is all import and no export. We populate Soviet goods and also export to balance trade. Brown and I are prepared to talk about this.” By Brown, the Prime Minister meant George Brown, Secretary of State and Minister for Economic Affairs.

Theoretically Britain only wanted to import raw materials from the Soviet Union, but at this exhibition, the British had realized that the Soviet Union was no longer the Imperial Russia that, under the impression, could only export raw materials.

While the citizens of London were still following the trend of the visit, the inner give has begun to discuss how to expand economic and trade relations, Whitehall is also assessing how to bypass the clampdown of the Batumi.

This is when the importance of Finland came out, we are not to do business with the Soviet Union, or to let Finland bathe in the light of freedom.