On patrol
When the Danish army had to make the decision as to what the ‘standard’ motorcycle had to be, the Army Technical Corps were mainly leaning towards buying motorcycles from outside of Denmark. However after tests with many different brands of motorcycles, it was the Danish Nimbus that was chosen. The Danish army bought its first Nimbus in 1920, a “Stovepipe”, and another one the year after. It was not due to local patriotism that the Nimbus was selected. In fact, there were many who had pushed to buy the big American motorcycles such as Indian and Harley-Davidson or the British single-cylindered machines. Many thought that the Nimbus, with its four cylinders, was fragile and not strong enough to pull a sidecar.
When the Nimbus, A and B models went out of production in 1928, many of the top brass in the army were happy, for now they could buy the motorcycles they really wanted – Norton, Douglas, BMW, BSA and single and twin cylinder Harley-Davidson models, and a few other brands. It was
