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Motorcycles at war
Motorcycles became fast, compact tools for dispatch riders, reconnaissance and military policing.
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1914–1945period
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Context and interpretation.
Military motorcycles show how a civilian machine could be adapted around reliability, rough-road use, luggage, blackout equipment and field maintenance. They belong equally in motorcycle history, communications history and the story of wartime transport.