Dispatch Rider

Dispatch Rider product information

To earn this badge a scout must do the following *

(1) Know the Highway Code.  

(2) Own or have the use of a cycle a motor cycle or motor car.

(3) Be able to carry out running repairs to cycle, motor cycle or car. 

(4) Carry a verbal message of not less than 40  words and deliver correctly after a journey of at  least five miles, in the course of which he must meet and deal  with some emergency staged by the Examiner. 

(5) ‘Write a report of some emergency such as a motor accident, giving adequate details for the police and doctor.

(6) Take down from dictation a written message and deliver it to a point indicated only by map reference.    

*The Requirements for each badge varied through issues of POR