Picture of the Month - June 2019

[AllAlloyCup]

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

[JonE]

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...'

[Peter Naulls]

... and surely they were Stadia not "Stadiums"!

Peter.

[Mike Costigan]

Only if you saw two together!

[JonE]

has Ruairidh perhaps got the possibility of two Stadiia on the bill at the forthcoming gathering? It could happen but getting increasingly less likely.

[AllAlloyCup]

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.

[Robin Oldfield]

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!