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Totally unfamiliar with that motor, but the carb for each cylinder is much more efficient and one of the main reason they get a lot of horses out of small size and weight. The practice is very common. "Old" technology with one carb feeding more than one cylinder requires a large crankcase and the incoming fuel has to go around corners and past dead spaces. That causes the fuel droplets to rain out of the mixture and settle at the bottom (did I hear "gas hog" and crankcase drain valves?) Separate carbs and straight-in charge flow fixed that. No, there was no protective device as you suggested. At least not back then.
BTW, the Dark Side discovered the compact crankcase design way back when. That’s one reason they kept outrunning the competition.