I know that Joe developed the "Split Single" two-stroke configuration as in the famous EMC. Does anyone know if he also did any work on the "Des Axe'" principal, whereby the cylinder centre line was offset forward (on normal forward rotating engines) to provide the power thrust forward of the crankshaft centre line. It seems that Mayflower have achieved this by other means. The offset cylinder axis for 2-stroke applications had a further beneficial effect in providing assymetric port timing, as did Joe's Split Singles.