mrrr? n c A —FAVOURITE WITH MILIARTDISPATCH EIDERS—AND WHY. , '

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 4

mrrr? n c A —FAVOURITE WITH MILIARTDISPATCH EIDERS—AND WHY. , '

It liae 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 hie life, '\ery often, upon the 'reliability of his mount. Her* is what Sergeant R. E. Schofleld, E E., 6 onior instructor of the Motor-cycle Sep. tion at Aldershot, has to say.- Nearly every dispatch rider that has cone to the front has passed through, my hands, and I am thereforo in a position to judge how tho different makes of machine aro in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away, tho favourite, and it has yet to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to it* well-earned repute. ... I may state that 50 per cent.- of the machines here aw BSA's." A motor-cyclist with,.the Second Cavalry Division, British Expedition. ..ary Force, writes in a private letter: "The roads are hellish. ... My. B.S.A. is the goods. I never have to touch it. They are tho bikes, my boy. They knock the — and any other mako jou like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty, of othor letters from tho front, all to th« same effect. Wo aro landing 20 of the latest model B.S.A.'s ex 8.5.. MarlborougH this week, and c-an give immediate de-. livery. They are ideal machines for oither 6010 or side-car service, and their reliability is famous. Tho h.p. is 4}, and the three-speed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. . Adams, Ltd., Cliristchuroh, Wanganui, Palmers ton North; Sutherland and Bankine, Wel-i lington; Tourist Motor Co., Hastings, fa; AS,A_, .Mot9w,xA4T.t."