Douglas Motorcycles in Bristol received a
telegram from the War Office on the afternoon 5 August and machines were dispatched to locations
around the country; other machines supplied included Zenith, Premier, Rudge and
Triumph
Yesterday the Army had 15 motorcycles, by
the end of the war they would have 34,000 in active service. Nobody knows the
total including those destroyed.
Army Officers, Metropolitan Police
Officers and some civilians that had already been identified as suitable
candidates for the Intelligence Corps were contacted by telegram on 5 August
for mobilisation. This embryo Corps included a motorcycle section riding War
Office supplied Black 3½ hp Rudge Multis.
