Detailed Construction
In reality, the casings were not really "unitary", as the crankcase section was vertically divided in the middle and no oil was shared between the three portions. Only in the 1960s did the familiar horizontally-split clam-shell cases arrive in Japanese motorcycles and become common, and this is not universal even today. The horizontally-split cases were the first to use the now expected single oil reservoir.
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