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(72) X.32055 - British despatch rider
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (72) X.32055 - British despatch rider |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549318 |
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| Description | A British army dispatch rider sitting on his motorcycle, apparently looking at a map. The painting and logo on the frame below the cross bar suggest that this motorcycle is a Triumph. Triumph produced some 30,000 model H roadsters for the War Office. The machines were nicknamed the "Trusty Triumphs". Motorcycles had been becoming popular before the war. At that time Britain led the way, with some 200 manufacturers, many working on a small scale. Douglas, for example, which was producing ten bikes a week before the war, had a War Office order for 300 bikes each week. [Original reads: 'A British despatch rider.'] |
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| Description | Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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