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Seventeen-year-old Alastair Bird from North Oxfordshire and his colleague Richard Furniss are pictured testing a device that could make life easier for disabled people. The device, which uses two concentric rods, allows a disabled person to change a light bulb without leaving the wheelchair. The invention has been awarded a 100 grant in the Get Around competition run by SAVINIM BP Oil and the Committee on Restrictions Against Disabled People, and will be put forward to the Get Around finals in London next month.Seventeen-year-old Alastair Bird from North Oxfordshire and his colleague Richard Furniss are pictured testing a device that could make life easier for disabled people. The device, which uses two concentric rods, allows a disabled person to change a light bulb without leaving the wheelchair. The invention has been awarded a 100 grant in the Get Around competition run by SAVINIM BP Oil and the Committee on Restrictions Against Disabled People, and will be put forward to the Get Around finals in London next month.
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MAG NVENTORS + INVENTION 1981 16 JUN 1981 BRIGHT IDEA JOSTRED 52100 epoM dellofay od Bios A SCHOOLBOY from North Oxford- shire has invented a device which could make life easier for disabled people. Seventeen-year-old Alastair Bird of Bar- retts, South Newington, near Barbury, a pupil at Shrewsbury School has developed a piece of equipment which means a dis- abled person can change a light bulb with- out leaving the wheelchair. Alastair is pictured with his colleague on the project, Richard Furniss, testing the device, which has been awardec a 100 grant in a Get Around competition, run by SAVINIM BP Oil and the Committee on Restrictions Against Disabled People. It will also go forward to the Get Around finals in London next month, when 6,000 worth of grants and awards will be made tc schools. The Studio, 20 Ravenoak Road, Cheadlo Hulme, Cheshire PHOTOGRAPHY Telephone 001-437 2353 “We talked to the secretary of a loca disabled club and found that this was virtu ally the only joo around the home which a disabled person could not tackle without help,” said Alastair. The device uses two concentric rods, one to grip the light fitting while the other either connects or disconnects the bulb itself. myuno 10 Stamp Registration No. 938 1981
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