Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
As always, Wikipedia needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
"Shorts" is/was the usual contraction for the manufacturer Short Brothers . . .
Thanks for that, I will happily go back to referring to them as Shorts🙂
(However, I won’t go as far as referring to a previous employer of mine as “Bristow
s” - that always grates on my ear, and I was always told that Alan Bristow insisted on it being referred to in the singular)