The Samofa type s108 has been produced with 2 watercooling systems.
There is a well known system with a plunger pump.
There are as far as I know two water plunger systems that were used.
(There seem to have been at least 2 fuel pump systems used as well) !
The other system is a sealed cooling system using a radiator and a fan pump. See Photo.
The fan pump is located on the opposite side from the fuelpump
The flywheel on the s108 engine can be placed on either side
There are even some engines with 2 flywheels.
As Mr. Bargemast explained on the forum, Samofa was a cooperation between the four big engine producers
The shares in the company was as follows:
Kromhout 40%
Bolnes 20%
Industrie 20%
Brons 20%
At that time it was too expensive for the large engine producers each to retool to make smaller help motors
They decided to start a joint project and put a new factory in Harderwijk. Even though the factory opened in April 1950,
some Samofa motors had already been sold
Because Kromhout were the farthest in their development of the smaller help engines it was decided to use mainly their components to build the engines,
They were already producing the 3,4,6 and 8 cylinder engines of this type.
So actually the first engines produced were Kromhouts under the Samofa name..
Coincidently, Kromhout also cooperated with Gardner in the U.K. so you could almost say that a Samofa is a Gardner!
@ MtB: Would it be possible for you to place a Photo of your Samofa?
Could you let me know the engine number?
Best regards,
Eric bronssie on the forum