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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 4

THE B.S.A—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH RIDERS—AND WHY. It has sometimes been said, with much truth, that the business test is the best test of any motor. War is the grimmest business of mankind, and the military motor-cyclist stakes his life, verv often, upon the reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant R. E. Schofield, R.E.. senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say:- Nearly even - dispatch rider that has cone to the front has passed through my hands, and I am therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of machine are in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away the favourite, and it lifts yet to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to its wll-eamed repute. ... I may state that 50 per cent, of the machines hero are B S 4.V A .motor-cyclist with, the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, uritcs in a private letter: "The roads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is the tioci'.s. I never have to touch it. They are the bikes, my boy. They knock the and any other inako you like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to tW same effect. We are landing 20 of tho latest model B.S.A.'s px s.s. Marlborough this week, and can Rive immediate delivery. They arc ideal machines for either solo or side-car service, and their reliability U famous, The h.p. is 4}, and the three-speed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd.. Cliristchurc.h, Wanganui, Palmerston North; Sutherland and Rankino, Wellington ; Tourist Motor Co., Hastings, A splits for B.S.A, Motors,—Advt.