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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2587, 8 October 1915, Page 4

THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE .WITH MIL!--•TAUT DISPATCH KIDERS-AND WHY. ' : : It has sometimes been said, with much truth, that the business test is the best tost of' any motor: War is tho grimmest business of mankind, ind the- military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. Hera is ■ what Sergeant K. E. Schofield, R.E;, 6onior, instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has tosay:-"N ; early every dispatch rider that Jias roeo to th# front has passed through my hands, and I cm therefore in, a position to judg# how the different makes' of machine' ar» in favoui. 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, ita well-earned repute. . . . I may stats that'so per cent, of the machines here are B S.A.'s. A motor-cyclist with the Seo> ond Cavalry Division, British ExpeditionI arv Forco, writes in a private letter: "The I roads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is the roods. I never have to touch it. They are the bikes, my .boy. . They knock, tho - and any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to tho same effect. We aro landing 20 of. the latest model B.S.A. s ex s.s. Marlborough this -week, and can give immediate deThey are ideal machines for either solo or side-car' service, and their reliability is famous. • The h.p. is' 4}, and the three-spsed countershaft gear is fook proof and wonderfully efficient. Adams; Ltd., Christchurch, . Wanganui, 'Palmers* ton North; Sutherland ana Rankine, Wel« lingtoni: Tourist Motor &>., Hastings.' Agents for B.S.A;—Advt. :.