Advertising
One of the first adverts to feature military personnel on motorcycles appeared this week. The advert featured a Douglas motorcycle and would soon be followed by Scott and many others.
Generous Patriotism
In what was even at
the time a very generous offer the Stepney Spare Motor Wheel, Llanelli, S.
Wales, announced that they offered to pay 30 shillings a week to all employees
going on active service. One wonders how long they were able to maintain the
payment.
Anti- German Paranoia
A suspicious man was
arrested in a motorcycle agency in London after asking for a Harley Davidson
Instruction Book and a key for the toolbox. Unable to give a good reason for
the request the German waiter, who had previously stolen a Harley was later
handed over to the police. The report concluded “Irrespective of the offence he
had committed he was liable to prosecution for riding a motor bicycle, as motor
bicycles are, of course, forbidden to persons of German nationality.”
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