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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2596, 19 October 1915, Page 4

THE 8.5.A.-FAVOUIUTE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH EIDERS—AND WHY. It lias sometimes been said, with much tmth, that the business test is the best test of auy motor. War is tho grimmest business of mankind, the military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon tho reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant E-. E. Scliofield, R.E., 6en ior instructor of tho Motor-cycle SecHon at Aldersliot, has to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has pone to the front has passed through my hands, and. I mil 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 Ims yet to happen that a B.S.A. has failed to act up to its woll-earncd repute. . . . I may stato that 50 per cent, of the machines here are BS A V A motor-cyclist with tho Secolid'Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, writes in a private letter: "The reads are hellish. . . Jfy B.S.A. is the goods. 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 tho front, all to tho samo effect Wo are landing 20 of the latest model B.S'.A. s ex s.s. Marlborough this week, and can give immediate <iclivery. They are ideal machines for either solo or sule-car service, and theii reliability is famous. Tho h.p. is and tho three-sp-:ed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd., Christqhurch, Wanganui, Palmers' ton North; Sutherland and Ifankine, Wellington) Tourist Motor Co., Hactinan, A.JKHW fo* K-KJL*—.Arfvfc,