如果你的紧密交易伙伴突然撂挑子怎么办?通用汽车的办法是:收购对方现在的汽车都是金属车身,顶多有一些敞篷车使用其他材料制造篷布。但在20世纪早期并非如此。那时,汽车车身的主要材料是木材,基本依靠手工制造。木工活儿和汽车制造厂的机械生产有着很大的不同,于是,那时的汽车企业往往从独立的车身制造厂采购车身。 What to do if your close trading partner suddenly picks up? GM’s approach is to buy each other’s cars now are metal body, at most, some convertible car using other materials to make tarpaulin. But that was not the case in the early 20th century. At that time, the main material of the automobile body was wood, basically relying on handmade. The mechanics of carpentry and carmakers vary widely, so automakers at that time often procured bodies from independent bodybuilders.