2nd Queen Victoria Rifles in 1940

[Kelvin]

2nd Queen Victoria Rifles (7th KRRC) was organized into motorcycle recce battalion and all soldiers were equipped with revolvers, anyone know how they organized and how many motorcycles they had ? Thank

[Knouterer]

Here you are, the War Establishment in force at the time, although there may have been some minor changes after Dunkirk. As you see, while there are a lot of revolvers (176), there are 399 rifles as well, plus 48 LMGs and 23 AT rifles.
Apart from being equipped with motorcycles, the battalion has no 3" mortars or Bren/Universal Carriers as a normal infantry battalion would have, but it does have 22 Daimler Scout Cars (Dingoes) in two platoons.

http://www.warestablishments.net/Great% ... 201939.pdf

That is all theoretical of course; for example, the 5th Loyals, a motorcycle battalion that did not go to France in 1939/40, received its Scout Cars in March 1940, but then on 15th May had to hand them all over to the 1st Armoured Division, as that div. went to France, where presumably it lost them all. The 5th Loyals received some "Malcolm Campbell" armoured cars (one of the many types of improvised armoured vehicles produced at that time - picture shows a prototype) as replacements in August. At the beginning of 1941, they were reorganized and re-equipped as a battalion of the new Reconnaissance Corps.