THE B.S.A.—FAVOURITE WITH MILITARY DISPATCH EIDERS—AND WHY. • ... .. It lias sometimes been Kid, with muca truth, tlint th.o business test is the best tost of any motor. War is tho grimmest business of mankind, rnd the military motor-cyclist stakes his life, very often, upon the reliability of has mount. Here is wbat Sergeant B. E. Sctofield, R.L!., 66nior instructor of the Motor-cycle Section at Aldershot, has to say: A|MTly cvorv dispatch rider that has gone to the front has passed through mj 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 roputto. . . . I state, that 50 per cent, of tho machines hore aro B S <V's " • motor-cyclist with tbe Secoiid Cavalry Division, British Expeditionarv Force, writes in a private letter: Ihe roads are hellish. . . My B.S.A. is tho goods. I never have to touch it. They are tlie bikes, my bov. They knock the nn< l any other make you like to mention into a cocked hat." There are plenty of other letters from the front, all to the same effect. We ,at'e landing 20 of tho latest model B.S.A.'s ex s.s. Marlborough this week, and can give immediate delivery They aro ideal machines for oither solo or side-car service, and'their reliability is famous. Tho h.p. is 44. and the three-speed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd., Christchurch, Wanganui, Palmerston North; Sutherland and Eankino, Wellington; Tourist Motor Co., Hastings, Agents for B.S.A.—Advt.
Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, _ ■ For Coughs and colds never fails, la.feL*
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2569, 17 September 1915, Page 4
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