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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2545, 20 August 1915, Page 4

THE B 3.A.-FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH EIDERS—AND • v -J '■«. 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 ft. E. Schofield, BE., senior instniotor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has eone 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 has yet 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 hero ore. B.S.A.'s." A motor-cyclist with the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionarv Force, writes in a private lottsr: "Ths roads aro hellish. . . . My B.S.i. is the roods. I never have to touch it. They are the bikes, my boy. They knock the — and any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other, letters from the front, all to tW same effect. Wo are landing 20 of the latest model B.S.A. s ex s.s. this week, and can rive immediate delivery. They are ideal machines foreither solo or Bidc-car oervicc, and their reliability is famous. The h.p. is 4}, and tho threo-speed countershaft gear is. foolproof , and wonderfully efficient. Adams,Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmerston North'; Sutherland and Rankine. Wellington! Tourist Motor Co., Hastings, Agents fcr B.S.A. Motors.—Advt.