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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 9 November 1915, Page 4

THE B S. A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY 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, end the military motor-cvclist stakes his lico, very often, ( m on tlie reliability of his mount. Here is what Sergeant R. E. Schofield, R.E., senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say'"Nearly eve'ry dispatch rider that has cone to the front has passed through my hands, and I isn therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of machine „re 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 stats that 50 per cent, of the machines here are B S \.V A motor-cyclist with the Second' Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, writes in a private letter: "The rc-ads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is the goods. I never have to touch it. They nre the- bikes, my boy. They knock the .— and any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat." Tliero are plenty of other letters from the fro'it, nil to tho same effect. Wo arc landing 20 of th« latest model B.S'.A.'s ox s.s. Marlborough this weok, and can give immediate d 6 livery. They aro ideal machines foi either solo or 6idc-car service, and theii reliability is famous. h.p. is 41, and the three-sp-ied countershaft gear is' foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adamsi Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmerston North; Sutherland and Rankine, Wellington; Tourist Motor Co., Haatina*. Apents for B.S.A.—Advt. . *