TWO-STROKE ENGINE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 2

TWO-STROKE ENGINE

: NEW INVENTION DISCOVERED LESS COST THAN FOUR-STROKE The two-stroke engine, generallyregarded as the "baby brother" of internal combustion engines, is like ]y to achieve supremacy over the Frenchman, M. Marcel Kadenacy, and subsequent researches of English engineers. / Engineers throughout the world are watching with interest the de-' velopment of the new principle in engine design and results already indicate that it marks the opening of an era in which the four-stroke engine will disappear. The purpose of the new method is to secure the same power from the two-stroke's explosion stroke as is obtained in a four-stroke engine and solve the problem of disposing all the exhaijst gases' at high velocp\ ity' while retaining the' two stroktrf characteristics of economy. - M. Kadenacy's patents Jiflve been subjected to intensive research i'ri the laboratories near London of a famous British engineering firm, and after five years' practical work on units of all sizes and types a .series of engines has been evolved to which the system has been aspplied with outstanding succ3ss. The new method is applicable tqr very big land and marine engine' units, such as those for 6000 horsepower motor ships. Apart from the greater economy in running • the lower fuel consumption without loss of power will have the gre,at advantage of giving vehicles or vessels a wider range on a single fuel load.