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SECTION H – Air Cleaners
Merv Richardson is given credit as the actual inventor of the
snorkel for 2-stroke lawnmowers in a mid-1955 patent. However, many
Victa designs from the early to mid-1960s used very short snorkels.

I think there are three reasons for this: the advent more efficient
air filtering using foam or paper cartridges; second, the potential
for snorkel kinking with folding handles using rubber snorkels; third;
the production speed gain of engine-mounted filtering. You decide.