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Aussie A10's used a draught tube that runs down the side of the block at the rear.
Rather primitive. It ventilated the crankcase, but not particularly well. That system was abanded in US after 1964.
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This engine does not seem to have any method of introducing clean filtered air into the crankcase.
It appears to use the same method the A12 uses -- there is a black hose at rear top of rocker cover, which goes to the air cleaner housing. This is the inlet for fresh air to crankcase at low speed, and the outlet of the crankcase pressure as hight speed (at which point the carb is drawing in a lot of air).
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looks like there is a blue pipe coming out of the back of the rocker cover
That should be the heater hose fitting at back of the cylinder head. There's a blue vinyl plug on the fitting.