Engineers begin careers

Six young people are looking forward to a rewarding career in engineering after successfully completing a fouryear apprenticeship scheme at Briggs Equipment. Thomas Wood, Liam Parsons, Ryan Matthews,Matthew Shaw, Stephen Grant and Matthew Molyneux have achieved National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 3 in Engineering.

Dean Mansell, Briggs Equipment's engineering standards manager, comments: "Each year, our apprentices are exposed to a vast amount of experience from hands-on practical work through to classroombased learning at college where they benefit from the theory behind forklift truck engineering."