1958, Li Xiannian visited Tianjin, and proposed that China should build its own rotary engine cars, foreign countries should install rotary engines on cars, and China should install rotary engines on trucks. Therefore, under the slogan of "the working class leads everything" at that time, the spirit conveyed by the meeting that day was "what is not available abroad, we socialist countries must invent it."
Under this historical background, the Tianjin Municipal Government instructed that the rotary engine was developed and produced by the powerful Tianjin Power Machine Factory at that time, and the TJ 140 freight car was manufactured by the Tianjin Freight Car Repair Shop. What? A garage makes cars? Yes! You are not mistaken. It is this garage that made TJ 140 freight cars. At that time, the repair shop had 800 employees, and its technical force was leading in North China and even the whole country. At that time, it was fully capable of manufacturing complete vehicles.
From 65438 to 0968, Tianjin Power Machinery Factory began to develop rotor engines. At that time, all countries were studying rotor engines, and Tianjin Power Machinery Factory easily got a foreign rotor engine to study and then made it by itself. In the second year, namely 1969, the self-produced 2 1 10 rotary engine was successfully rolled off the production line. At the same time, the whole vehicle manufacturing industry of Tianjin freight car repair shop was basically completed. In June, 65438+TJ 140, the world's first truck with a rotary engine was successfully trial-produced.
After successful trial production, the car departed from Tianjin, passed through Zhengzhou and Chengdu, and finally arrived in Lhasa for a road test. According to Liu Fuhe, the main driver who took part in the test at that time, the speed of this car was very fast because of the high rotating speed of the rotor engine, and the top speed could reach140 km/h. After arriving in Chengdu, a Daoqi and 10 Jiefang truck was dispatched by Chengdu Military Region to ensure safety. The indicators in the road test were equivalent to some domestic gourmet trucks at that time, which caused quite a shock at that time.
But at that time, China was in the period of planned economy, and the number of cars was decided by the state. Therefore, the only truck with a rotary engine in the world stopped after only 40 cars were produced. These 40 TJ 140 trucks have become out of print in the history of truck manufacturing in the world. ? But what is more regrettable is that most of these cars have no bones, and we can't see their true colors. However, Tianjin Power Machinery Factory, which provided engines, stopped production because of the inherent defects of high oil consumption and short service life after manufacturing less than 100 rotary engines, and the application of rotary engines in China came to an abrupt end at this time.
I have to admit that in that special era, the TJ 140 truck was a miracle at that time. Although little known, it is worth remembering in the automobile history of China.
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