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HandWiki. Split-Single. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/37814 (accessed on 23 September 2026).
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The split-single (Doppelkolbenmotor to its German and Austrian manufacturers), is a variant on the two-stroke engine with two cylinders sharing a single combustion chamber.

doppelkolbenmotor split-single two-stroke engine

References

  1. Diagramatic split-single Fuel-air circulation and the Y-shaped connecting rod. http://www.classicmotorcycles.org.uk/bikemuseum/museum_twn.htm
  2. Sammy Miller Museum Split-single torque and economy rival that of a four-stroke. http://museum.sammymiller.co.uk/restorations.htm
  3. Walker, Mick (11 October 2018). "Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles". Redline Books. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7bGuud7_uy0C&pg=PA1934&lpg=PA1934&dq=puch+split+motorcycle&source=web&ots=V5p8cebHiC&sig=AUn0rwxDmpCTXhDKAEeNFT0c7lw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=puch+split+motorcycle&f=false. 
  4. The Garelli 350 cc split-single stayed in production until 1926 and made a major impact in racing. http://www.ukwheels.com/motorbikes.asp?bike=Garelli%20Mosquito
  5. Trojan Two-stroke 1927 Science Museum photo of split-single with V-shaped Connecting Rod. http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10221392&wwwflag=2&imagepos=16
  6. "Trojan Museum Trust". http://www.trojanmuseumtrust.org/. 
  7. Puch's two-stroke double-piston engines asymmetric port opening of 1923 Puch Marcellino design, inspired by industrial opposed-piston engines. http://www.mfs-online.at/oldies/puch.htm
  8. Walker, Mick (2000), Mick Walker's European Racing Motorcycles, https://books.google.com/books?id=7bGuud7_uy0C&pg=PA1934&lpg=PA1934&dq=puch+split+motorcycle&source=web&ots=V5p8cebHiC&sig=AUn0rwxDmpCTXhDKAEeNFT0c7lw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA1934,M1, retrieved 2011-08-28 
  9. "Allstate 250" 1966 from Sears. Note the mistake in this diagram, labeling of the "front" and "rear" pistons has been reversed. http://home.sprynet.com/~inniss/sears.htm
  10. Friedrich F. Ehn: Das große Puch-Buch. Weishaupt, Graz 1993, ISBN:3-900310-49-1 (German). 38,584 Puch 250 SGS were produced from 1953 to 1970.
  11. Allstate "Twingle" Sears sold tons of them ... survived better than almost any other bike of that era. http://physiology.usouthal.edu/restore/allstate.htm
  12. Adopted by Ing Zoller in 1931 the concept [of the Split Single Engine] was to make DKW the dominant racing motorcycle in the Lightweight and Junior classes during the pre war years. http://www.classicmotorcycles.org.uk/bikemuseum/museum_twn.htm
  13. TWN split-single BDG250 A radical two stroker in 1953? Business Standard Motoring, Aug 2008. http://www.bsmotoring.com/news/1953-twn-bdg250-siamese-twn-/849/2
  14. TWN Bike Review includes sketch of split-single "side-by-side" piston layout. http://www.classicmotorcycles.org.uk/bikemuseum/museum_twn.htm
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