Method of manufacturing assembled conductor and electric motor

A method of manufacturing an assembled conductor, comprising:

• arranging a plurality of peripheral wires having anisotropic cross-sectional shapes around a central wire;
• bundling the central wire and the peripheral wires that have been arranged, to form a conducting wire bundle;
• and
• rolling the conducting wire bundle to form the assembled conductor, wherein
• the arranging includes a bending process of bending the peripheral wires respectively in directions along imaginary lines that extend radially relative to an axis of the central wire on an imaginary plane intersecting the axis of the central wire,
• the bending process is a second bending process,
• the arranging further includes a first bending process of bending the plurality of peripheral wires that are arranged in a line in directions intersecting the radially extending imaginary lines before the second bending process, and
• in the second bending process, the plurality of peripheral wires are bent at positions where the peripheral wires intersect the imaginary lines.