SHB
Oil engine
- Series
- H Series
- Fuel
- Petroleum
- Type
- Horizontal, water-cooled (medium-speed)
features
SHB is a small engine that was launched the year after AHB.
With the same horsepower as AHB, but with higher speed (rpm) and less weight.It was introduced as an engine that women could also comfortably use.
specification
- Year
- 1952
- Fuel
- Petroleum
- Type
- Horizontal, water-cooled (medium-speed)
- Cylinders
-
- Number of cylinders
- 1
- Rated output / speed
- 2.5/1800
- Length x Width x Height (mm)
- 680/350/420
- Dry weight(kg)
- 40
applications
-
Power Sprayer
-
Rice Husker
-
Pumping / Irrigation Machine
story
Postwar Reconstruction Increases Demand for Engines
A few years following the end of World War II, the Japanese economy had recovered from the chaos and was entering an era of free competition. Engines were valuable because they were useful for increasing food production, which caused demand to explode.Kubota resumed manufacturing engines, which were the heart of Japanese industry.