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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 4

THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH EIDERS—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, very often, upon the reliability of his m<> Ul }t- Here is what Sergeant 1?. E. Schofield, I?-E., senior instructor of tho Motor-cycle section at Aldershot, has to say:— ix early every dispatch rider that has gone to the front has passed through my ana I am therefore in a position to judge how tho different makes of machine are lin favour. The B.S.A. is by far away tho favourite, and it has yec to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to its well-earned repute. ... I .may state that 50 per cent, of the machines here are B P K.'s." A motor-cyclist with the. Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, writes in a private letter: "The road« are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is tho L'oc.ds. I never have to touch it. They are tho bikes, my boy. They knock the — and any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat." Thero are plenty of other letters from the front, all .to thi samo effect. We are landing.2o ■of . the latest model B.S.A.'s ex 6.5-. Marlborough litis week, and oan Rive immediate delivery. They are ideal machines for either «010 or side-car service, and theit reliability is,famous. The h.p. is 4}, and the three-speed countershaft gerir -is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adoiosi Ltd., Christchurch, '.Wanganui, Palmerston North; Sutherland and J?ankine, Wellington : Tourist Motor Co., Haftiflifij Asrents for B.S.A. Motors.—Advt.