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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2630, 27 November 1915, Page 4

Wo invito officers to inspect our Officers' Kit Bags, in good strong khaki and brown oanvas, 9s. 6d. and 12s. Gd. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd., Manners Street—Advt. .

THE U.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH RIDERS—AND WHY. ' It Has eomotlmes T»an said, with much truth, that the business test is the- best test of any motor. War is, the grimmest business oE mankind, iiid tie military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of his mount. PTcre is what Sergeant K. E. Schofield, R.E.,. senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Soo tion at Aldershot, ha 6 to say:—"Nearly every dispatch rider that has eons to the front has passed through my hands, and I cm therefore in a position to judge how the different makes of machine are 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 np to it« well-earned repute. . . .1 may stat» that 50 per cent, of the machines here are BSA's.' A motor-cyclist with,the Second' Cavalry Division, British Expedition, ary Force, writes in a private letter: "The roads are hellish. ... My B.S.A'. is tho 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 the front, all to tho same effect. We are landing 20 of the latest model B.S'.A. 6 ex s.s. Marlborough this week, and can give immediate' uelivery. They are ideal machines for • either solo or side-car service,- and their reliability is fnmous. T... h .p: ; is i}, and the three-sp-eed oounterehnft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmers' ton North; Sutherland and Bankine, Wei' lington; Tourist Motor Co., Hastings. Asentfl for B.6.A.—Adrt,