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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 6

A Mexican wlio dwells in Acton, California, has been chopping and hauling wood for the past fifty years, and now thinks of retiring from business and giving the young fellows a chance. His age is 112, and lie thinks he is entitled to a rest. THE 8.5.A.-FAVOURITE WITH MILI. TARY 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 tlis military motor-cyclist 6takes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant B. E." Schofield, R.E., senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at AldeTshot, has to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has gone to the front has passed through my hands, and I am therefore in 0 position to judge how the different makes of machine are in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away the favourite, and it has yet to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to its well-earned repute. ... I mar state that 50 per cent, of the machines here are B.S.A.V A .motor-cyclist with, the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, writes in a private letter: "The roads are hellish. ... My B.S.A. is the goods. I never, have to touch it. They ore the bikes, my boy. They knock the . and any other make you like to mention into a'cooked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to tho same .effect. We are landing 20 of. the latest model B.S.A.'a ex s,s. Marlborough this week, "and oan give immediate delivery. They are ideal machines for either solo_ or side-car service, and their reliability is famous. The h.p. is 4}, and tho three-speed countershaft gear is foolmaf and wonderfully efficient. Adams, ~ Christohnroh, Wanganni, Palmeraton North: Sutherland and Rankine, Wellington 1 Tourist Motor Co,, Hastings, Assnta fct 8.8iA.; Motom.-AdTt,