With Motorcycling Encouraged Soldiers were allowed to use their Army machines and petrol at the expense of the Government.
The programme, the Quartermaster General continued, showed that today motorcyclists formed part of practically every Corps and Regiment of the British Army.
The object of the meetings, he pointed out, was to encourage not only a high degree of skill in actual riding, but also in machine mastership—the maintenance and skill in map reading.
General Sir Reginald May described the course chosen as moderately severe and as comparing favourably with the type of course expected of riders of international repute—Wireless Through Reuter.
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