Tho latest eight-cylinder motor . eneines represent the nearest approach to fhe even running of'turbine engines, ana. one oannot understand the beautifully sweet action of the latest 8-cyV. carß until one has actually ridden in one. Th» Dominion' Motor Vehicles would bo pleased to show intending customers the latest B<yl. King oars, a shipment of which has just arrived.—Advt.
THE U.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH RIDERS-AND WHY. It !iaa sometimes 'been raid, 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 li;e, rery often, nDO n the reliability of his mount. Her* is what Sergeant R. E. Schofield, R.E., senior instructor of the Motor-cycle Pro. tion at Aldershot, has to say I "Nearly, every dispatch rider that has gone to th« ■ front has passed through my hands, and I am 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 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 tho machines here art B.S.A.'s." A motor-cyclist with the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Force, writes in a private ..letter: "The reads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is the goods. I never have to touch it. Th»y ore the bikes, my boy. They knock the — and any other make you like tc mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the fro-it, all to the samo effect Wo are landing 20 of the latest model B.S.A.'S ex s.s. Marlborough this w-eek, ca ' L give immediate delivery. They aro ideal machines for either solo or side-car service, and their reliability is famous. Tlu h.p. is 4}, and the three-spied countershaft gear is fool* proof and wonderfully efficient. . Adam* Ltd., Cirristqhurch, Wanganui, Palmers' 1 ton North; Sutherland and Kankine, Wellington: Tourist Motor Co., Hasting! Aranl* fa?
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 4
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