TEST
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Stevenson’s, one of the country’s major
manufacturers of metal
goods. Thank you for choosing us for your two weeks of work experience. My name is Julia Simmons,
and since the beginning of this year I’ve been the managing director.
Stevenson’s is quite an old company. Like me, the founder,
Ronald Stevenson, went into the steel industry
when he left school – that was in 1923.
He set up this company when he finished his apprenticeship, in
1926
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, although he actually started making plans two years earlier, in 1924. He was a very determined
young man!
Stevenson’s long-term plan was to manufacture components for the machine tools industry – although
in fact that never came about – and
for the automotive industry, that is, cars and lorries. However, there
was a delay of five years before that happened, because shortly before the
company went into production,
Stevenson was given the opportunity to make goods for hospitals and other players in the healthcare
industry, so that’s what we did for the first five years
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.
Over
the years, we’ve expanded the premises considerably – we were lucky that the site is big enough,
so
