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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2608, 2 November 1915, Page 4

THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MlLfc TART DISPATCH RIDERS-AND WHY. It has sometimes been scid, with much' truth, that the business test is the best test of any motor. War is tho grimmest business of mankind. <nd tie military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon tho reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant It. E. Schofield, 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 mjr hands, and I aju therefore in a position to jndge how the different makes of machine aTe 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 here are BSA.'s." A motor-cyclist with the Sc-cj ond 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 ore tho bikos, my boy. They knock the — and any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat/ 1 There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to tho same effect. Wo are landing 20 of tho latest model B.S.A.'s ex s.s. Marlborough this week, and con pive immediate delivery. They are ideal machines for either solo or side-car service, and their reliability is famous., Tlu h.p. is 4], ond th« three-spied countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. AdamV Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmers* ton North; Sutherland ana Rankine,' Wei' iington; Tourist Motor Co., Hastings, Agents fot BJ3.A,—Advfc