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Industrial links bring real NEWSFLASH * NEWSFLASH -
world into school
Buying a house or re-mortgaging can be
A design project at Greendown The directors of Redman Engin- a stressful experience, but we at
School has impressed the senior eering in Swindon were so pleased
managers and staff at West Swindon by the work put into a project by Christie & Plumb have a way of actually
based company PHH. Greendown second years that the making it something to look forward to.
The PHH AllStar marketing company spent £2,500 on re-
department set third year students producinga model designed by one
the task of designing, producing and of the students. One of our many lenders is offering
presenting a direct marketing A study module in engineering
package which the company might required 180 students to learn how
use to promote the AliStar Fuel Card gears, pulleys and levers work. The TWO RETURN AIR TICKETS
which is used by company car culmination of the module took
drivers. place at the end of the Spring term TO FLORIDA FREE
The students had four one and a when local business people and
half hour classes to work out their parents were invited to attend a 'Toy with every new mortgage or re-mortgage
ideas, design and then make Fair' to examine the students' work
materials which they would use to and to see their working models in completed on or before the 31st October 1990
present to the company. At the end action.
of the work module students in their Two Redman directors judged To find our more, contact
work teams visited PHH to make a that Andrew Blackford's model of a
formal presentation to a panel of helicopter showed most innovation
judges made up of professionals in because he had used gears to convey Christie & Plumb
marketing. power in two directions.
A group of Greendown students 161 RODBOURNE ROAD
visited Redman Engineering in July
to see the work on the model in SWINDON
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design information was fed into a
computerised milling machine to NEWSFLASH ? NEWSFLASH
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Mike Neal,Redman'sProduction
Director, said his staff had enjoyed
working on the project. "We chose
Andrew's helicopterbecause he had
used gears in two plains. It's been a
challenge for us because we had to
PHI-I's Diane Edgar presents the marketing use a very basic design and use our
wizz kids with a trophy, fivm left, Karen computers to recreate it in metal."
Pemj,AndrssandJonathanMalgarin Andrew from Westlea commented
Marketing Manager Diane Edgar that it was surprising seeing his work
said she had been very impressed being re-made in a factory.
with the quality of the students' The finished model, mounted
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