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RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - AllAlloyCup - 04-06-2019
Although it has a”boat tail” it’s surely a GE Stadium ?
The second photo shows a similar car parked outside Gordon England’s showroom.
Note the central location of the Austin script on the radiator, a GE “trademark”
Stadiums were the successor to the GE Cup and were originally fabric bodied but
later were alloy skinned, “As light as a Fabric” says the period advert I have of this car.
My Cup is alloy skinned :-)
Regards
Bill G
RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - JonE - 04-06-2019
Bill - the question was 'is that a boat tail?' rather than 'is that a Boat Tail?', so as the post was about a Stadium in the first place...
But of course, if it had been 'is that a Boat Tail?' then someone could have answered 'no, it has a boat tail but Boat Tails were never actually called Boat Tails despite them having boat tails...'
RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - Peter Naulls - 04-06-2019
... and surely they were Stadia not "Stadiums"!
Peter.
RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - Mike Costigan - 04-06-2019
Only if you saw two together!
RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - JonE - 04-06-2019
has Ruairidh perhaps got the possibility of two Stadiia on the bill at the forthcoming gathering? It could happen but getting increasingly less likely.
RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - AllAlloyCup - 04-06-2019
If we are being fussy about capitalisation, I think Stadia only has one I :-)
Regards
Bill G
Ps Pretty certain my Cup will make it to Guildtown now
but Neil’s won’t make it as he’s still to fit the fabric covering.
RE: Picture of the Month - June 2019 - Robin Oldfield - 09-06-2019
This pluralisation of car names seems to be an endless source of controversy. Surely even if a proper noun is derived from an common noun it is a word in its own right. A girl called Daisy may have a name originally taken from the flower daisy (a noun associated with a class of entities) but she is not that flower. Put two of them together and they are not two Daisies, but Daisys. A Stadium does not look at all like a stadium, and isn't a stadium. Two of them are Stadiums. And please, no apostrophes!
