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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2585, 6 October 1915, Page 4

THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILIj • TARY DISPATCH EIDERS—AND WHY. ,It has sometimes been «ia, with much truth, that the business test is the best test of any motor. War is the grimmest business of mankind, tnd the military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. Hera is what Sergeant R. E. Schcfield, R.E., senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has gone to the front has passed through my hands, and I cm therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of- machine are, in favouir. 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 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 oro the bikos, 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 the same effect. Wo are landing 20 of the latest model B.S.A.'s o.ys.s. Marlborough this week, and con give immediate delivery. They aro ideal ' machines for cither solo or side-car service, and their reliability is famous. The hp. is i J, and the three-speed ooontershaft gear is foolproof'and wonderfully efficient. Adams Ltd., Christchurch, Wanaanui, Palmers* ton North; Sutherland and Rankine, Wellington; Tourist .Motor C 0. ,; Hastings* .Adults foi^B.S.A.—Advt/