Jul 9, 2013 · Initially the first true motorcycle to carry a machine gun was in service with the Canadian 80 th Militia regiment in 1908, they used a Harley Davidson motorcycle and sidecar combination with a forward facing Maxim gun. Its inventor, a Sergeant Northover, was to become better known as the inventor of the Northover projector issued widely to the ...

Jul 9, 2013 · Interests: Royal Engineers Signals Service motorcycle despatch riders 1914 5th Signals Company, especially their motorcycle despatch riders Posted 28 April , 2014 This is a pretty standard single speed clutch hub 1912 Triumph which belongs to the firm Vin and Vet.eu which handles vintage and veteran motorcycles.

Sep 9, 2003 · The Douglas motorcycle began in 1905 as a prototype engine by Joseph Barter which by 1907 had evolved to become the Fairy Motorcycle. This was followed by a long line of horizontally opposed twin cylinder machines of 2.75 HP right through to the late twenties. 1914 saw production in large quantities for the war effort (300 per week) and also ...

Jul 9, 2013 · Interests: Royal Engineers Signals Service motorcycle despatch riders 1914 5th Signals Company, especially their motorcycle despatch riders Posted 4 November , 2013 As you say Archibald John Sproston was recruited as a despatch rider - the MIC records nothing other than his name, rank, and date of entry.

Sep 22, 2009 · Here are two original photographs from my personal collection, each dating from the First World War This first one, from a photograph dated 28th February 1916, is a Douglas 2 3/4hp machine, 350cc. This was a very common Despatch Rider motorcycle and appears in a lot of photographs - during the Fi...

Jul 10, 2012 · Will's WW1 Military Motors - Card No.35 - French Motor Cycle Ambulance. " The Red Cross organisation of the French Army has been carried to a high state of perfection. Motor vehicles of all descriptions are adapted - in the mountainous Vosges, where in many places the roads are so narrow and steep, that ordinary Red Cross Ambulances cannot be ...

Feb 15, 2020 · Hello! May be someone can help me to ID this WW1 motorcycle, what model is this? Photo was taken by an officer of 2d infantry Sofiysky regiment, my guess this vehicle was supplied to Russian Empire from Great Britain or US. Thanks In …

Jun 29, 2008 · 1918 Douglas 2 3/4hp 350cc machine, which saw service as a despatch riders motorcycle in WW1. 1918 Phelon & Moore 3.5hp machine, used by the Royal Flying Corps. 1915 Sunbeam 3 1/2 hp, originally property of 11 Squadron RFC, as the plaque on the back shows. It's up for auction by Bonhams in September, estimated for £12,000-£15,000

Jul 9, 2013 · Last week I purchased a trio of WW1 medals that came from an auction in Bristol . I believe that these may be his (A Mason 30263) . Nat archives state that he was a Mechanist Corporal but there is no regiment ( I have gone through all the Masons on there and he was the only RE Mechanist Corporal documented ).

Jan 26, 2016 · W.H.L. Watson was a British Army motorcycle despatch rider in the First World War. He saw active service during the key battles of 1914 and early 1915. Watson and his colleagues formed part of the Royal Engineers Signal Service and these riders were originally volunteers, some of whom supplied their own machines.