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Portusgalian Economics

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The Portusgalian Auto-Industry

Several attempts were made during the 30s,but ultimately failed, either due to financial problems, lack of market or even technological problems. The auto industry in Portusgalia finnaly rise in the late 30s, when finnaly the governament decided it was a "strategic industry". The company "ASTRA", Aliança Siderúrguca e TRAnsportes, was born, building cheap cars till today.

The current model is the Astra Glamour, available in Powertrains of 700cc and 900cc.


Source: viewed in 17 January 2014 at 11:26 AM

Astra also builds trucks and vans. And since the mid 40ties armoured vehicles, although not up to much, and a bit outdated for the nowdays. This is due to underfounding of the projects by the governament.

OOC: Astra Glamour is a Morris Minor ;)
 
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Astra new car

Astra has plans to exapand over portusgalian borders and seduce more costumers. The Astra Valiant came to scene, and is the Car of the Year in Portusgalia. It is the first medium sized car ever made in Portusgalia. The engine is the new Astra 1200, the largest ever built for a car by Astra. The interior is more elaborate, the seats have good materials like leather or better fabrics. Astra Glamour now represent the economic car from Astra.


Source: , viewed in 19 of Jannuary 2014, at 12:50 PM

Astra Valiant

Body and chassis
Body style:

4-door sedan
4-door estate
2- & 4-door cabriolet
2-door coupe

Layout: Front Engine

Powertrain
Engine: 1290 cc Straight-4 42–49 hp

OOC: Astra Valiant is a Peugeut 203 ;)
 
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The Aeronautics

The massive overseas provinces impelled the portusgalians to search for new ways of travelling. One of them is airplanes. A small aeronautic company, CASA (Construtor Aeronáutico, Sociedade Anónima) in 1923, a joint venture between the State and a few tycoons. CASAs main costumers are landowners from Hymiar, specially Mozambia, who buy several light aircraft to sow fields by plane. It is faster and cheaper. Since Mozambia is so big, use them as "air cars" to travel fast between sites, where sometimes roads are bad, or don't even exist.

CASA is also the main source of military aircraft of the decrepit Royal Air Force. CASA engineers are in fact quite good, but governament underfounding makes all the difference. Since the Civil War of 1928, the Governament is very hick with the foreign investment in "Strategic Industries", because there is a fear of "technology theft" due to the fact that the Integralists had several foreign supporters, while the Neo-Septembrist fought almost alone, only with the main support of Mozambia. It has also a brand, Hispano Aviación, created by Alberto Hispano, an aeronautics passionate, (OOC: a kind of portusgalianHoward Hughes), owner of the Bangala Oil exploration, since he is one of the major share owner of the company, with 50% of it.

Bombers, the Portusgalian airforce doesn't know exactly what that is... They only relly on the CASA 2111:



Very outdated...

Transporters:



The only fighter, the HA 1112, designed by Alberto Hispano, based on other internacional airplanes



Outdated, but remains in production...


OOC: I'm using the spanish company CASA and Hispano Aviacion, has the "guide", since they are small obscure aircraft companies, with little curriculum ;) It fits well on my RP and GDP of Portusgalia. 33% of shares, like the IRL one, are state owned

You can have a sneak preview ;)



 
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The Royal Arsenal

The Royal Arsenal is a public company that works on heavy industry related to weapons manufacture. Their main products are:

Handguns

MAB Model A
MAB Model D pistol
Modèle 1935 pistol
Star Model 14
MAS 1873 revolver
Modèle 1892 revolver
Ruby pistol

Rifles

Fusil Automatique Modele 1917
Lebel and Berthier rifles
Fusil MAS36
Fusil MAS36 CR39
Ribeyrolle 1918 automatic carbine
Meunier rifle

Submachine guns

MAS-38
Delacre machine pistol
FBP 948

Machine guns

Chauchat
FM-24/29
MAC 1931
MAC 1934
Model 1924/1929D
St. Étienne Mle 1907
Hotchkiss M1909 Benet-Mercie
Hotchkiss M1914
Reibel
13.2 mm Hotchkiss
Hotchkiss M1922
Darne

Anti-Tank weapons

25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun
47 mm APX anti-tank gun
AC 37 anti-tank gun
AC 47 anti-tank gun

Anti-Aircraft weapons

Canon anti-aérien de 75mm modèle 1939
Darne machine gun
20 mm modèle F2 gun
20mm tarasque


Artillery

Canon Court de 105 M(montagne) modele 1909 Schneider
Canon Court de 105 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider
Canon de 105 court mle 1934 Schneider
Canon de 105 court mle 1935 B
Canon de 105 L mle 1936 Schneider
Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider
Canon de 155 C modèle 1915 St. Chamond
Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider
Canon de 155mm GPF
Canon de 194 mle GPF
Canon de 65 M (montagne) modele 1906
Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider
Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1928
Canon de 75 modèle 1897
Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider

Grenades and mines

F1 grenade (France)
Modèle 1939 (mine)

Mortars

Brandt Mle 1935
Brandt mle 27/31

Still in production, only be demand, but being phased out due to obsolescence. The new policies of the company, by order of the governament, are to produce exclusively weapons, not armour.

Somua S35 - Medium Tank
Hotchkiss H25 - Light Tank
 
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Astra Himyar



The ASTRA company, with its new industrial complex in Lourenço Marques City, has brought the paradigm of all purpose/terrain vehicle to life. Heavily based on military cars, this is a civil version directed to the wild continent of Himyar where a road tends to be a luxury. The company ASTRA expects great sells from this colonial vehicle.

Body and chassis

2-door Off-road vehicle
4-door Off-road vehicle
2-door pickup

Powertrain

Engines: 1.6 L I4, 2.0 L I4

Transmission: 4-speed manual


OOC: This is a Land Rover Series I. If someone has the same vehicle has me, please disclaim i will remove this one.

Source for this article is , consulted by me in 03.06.2015 at 13:39 Lisbon hour
 
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