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Vintage Thing No.77 - 1947 EMC 350

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Similarities in layout to the Trojan split single are clear but the conrods of the EMC 350 aren't designed to bend. I've written about Trojan engines on this blog before, wondering if they could have had any sporting potential. I've a soft spot for two strokes and supercharging them sounds very exotic - almost impossible - and something to crow about if you can do it right. Dr Josef Ehrlich came from Austria and settled in post-war Britain to develop his take on the DKW blown two strokes that had made such an impression before the war. Unlike the Trojan, which used a flexible single vee-shaped conrod for the two pistons, Dr Joe used a stiffer one with an articulated link that allowed the pistons to travel happily in their separate cylinders without the need for said spindly vee-shaped conrods to flex. Based in Isleworth in the London borough of Hounslow, EMC never entered quantity production but were available from 1947 to 1952. After that Dr Ehrlich concentrated on...