my type of motorcycle, with a machine gun sidecar. Motor machine gunners starting out on a stunt by National Library of Scotland on Flickr. Via Flickr: Motorbike machine gun crews, France, during World War I. Seven or eight machine-gun crews are ready to set out on a sortie. Each crew consists of two men, the driver on a motorbike and the gunner sitting in an armoured sidecar. The officer is in front on a motorbike without a sidecar. During World War I, motorbikes were used as a quick and easily manoeuvred method of transport, in the same way that jeeps have been used in more recent conflicts. [Original reads: . ‘OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Motor machine gunners starting out on a “stunt”.’]digital.nls.uk/74548882 High-res

my type of motorcycle, with a machine gun sidecar.

Motor machine gunners starting out on a stunt by National Library of Scotland on Flickr.


Via Flickr:
Motorbike machine gun crews, France, during World War I. Seven or eight machine-gun crews are ready to set out on a sortie. Each crew consists of two men, the driver on a motorbike and the gunner sitting in an armoured sidecar. The officer is in front on a motorbike without a sidecar.

During World War I, motorbikes were used as a quick and easily manoeuvred method of transport, in the same way that jeeps have been used in more recent conflicts.

[Original reads: . ‘OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Motor machine gunners starting out on a “stunt”.’]

digital.nls.uk/74548882