Jasonu, your translation is 100% correct. But the original Dutch text is not. Here is what happened:
Around 1995 I discussed my FOS scavenging system with Cees van Dongen (great character, saddly missed). Cees used to cast his own cylinders, based on the Mahle-Kreidler racing cylinders. Cees then showed me an experimental cylinder in which he had added a small transfer port under the exhaust. This was the only difference. Contrary to Lucs suggestions there were no circumferential exhausts, no symmetric transfer ports, no central cavenging column, in short: no resemblance to my system.
The casting of this prototype was too porous to be properly tested, as William van Dongen confirms, and Cees let me have the cylinder as a souvenir.
The picture below with the yellow transfer port shows an impression. When I get back to Holland, I can take a picture of the original cylinder and post it.
@ William van Dongen: if this cylinder has a sentimental value to you, just let me know and I'll let you have it.
@TZ350: sorry to clutter up your thread. I didn't start this conversation and there is no other place for me to rectify what was being said here.
Now I wonder if Luc has the balls to rectify what he wrote about the Van Dongen-cylinder in this forum and in the other places where he posted the same text.
By the way, that's the way the whole thing started. At the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 I presented my scavenging idea in a racing newsletter and in a Dutch motorcycle magazine, accompanied by drawings and a picture of a cylinder that had clearly been running.
Luc, whom I had never heard of before, promptly launched a me-too reaction all over the internet. He even claimed to have been the first with a running engine, because he posted a video while I had better things to do.

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