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Image: Two-stroke deflector piston (Autocar Handbook, 13th ed, 1935)

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Description: How the ports are arranged in a two-stroke motor cycle engine. Either a deflector piston or a special arrangement of tangentially inclined ports may be used to admit the fresh charge (solid arrows) and keep it from contamination with the burnt gases seen exhausting (dotted arrows).
Title: Two-stroke deflector piston (Autocar Handbook, 13th ed, 1935)
Credit: Scan from The Autocar (Thirteenth edition, circa 1935) Autocar Handbook, London: Iliffe & Sons., pp. p. 26
Author: Andy Dingley (scanner)
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