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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 4

THE 8.5.A.-FAVOURITE WITH MILI--TARY DISPATCH EIDERS—AND v It has sometimes been ,seid, with much' i truth, that the business test is the best ■ test of\ any motor. War is the grimmest business of mankind.■ md the military ; motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, I upon the reliability of his raount/. Here lis what Sergeant R.JE. Schofield .M„ ' senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Sec«on at Aldershot, has to sny:-"Nearly every dispatch rider that has gone to the front bns-passed through my bauds, and I on therefore in a .position to judge how the different makes of machine aie 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. nwy state that 50 per cent, of the machines hero are B S A.'s." A motor-cyclist with the Secoiid Cavalry Division, British Expedition. - arv Force, writes in a private letter: "The roads are hellish. ... My B.S.A. is tha poods. I never have to touch it. They are the bikes, my boy.. They knock the „ any other make yon like to men- . • tion into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front; all- to the samo effect. We are landing 20 of the latest model B.S.A.'s ex s.s. Marlborough this week, aud can givo'' immediate : ae- , livery. They are ideal machines • fir either solo or 6ide-ear service, and their reliability-is famous. Tho b.p. is 4!, and the three-speed countershaft gear is^feol' proof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmersten North; Sutherland and Rankino, Wellington;' Tourist Motor Co., Hastings, 'Agents for B.S.A.—Advt.