Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles
The Noisy, Smelly Two-Stroke
S1 • E5 Nov 23, 1997 45m
Robbie Coltrane traces the development of the small but noisy two-stroke engine. Its cheap simplicity helped to rebuild the ailing postwar economy in East Germany with the production of the Trabant but in the west it was mainly used for leisure in such machines as lawnmowers, snowmobiles, model planes and boats.
