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21 September 2011 12:04
MOTORING
Charles Warner leads Lincoln student to victory
With help from Charles Warner Chevrolet in Lincoln, students from Lincoln University took the top spots in a national photography competition.
Chevrolet had a number of high calibre students from across the UK take part in their Young Creative Chevrolet competition. With Chevrolet celebrating its centennial anniversary in 2011 the winners were chosen based on how they best depicted this hundred-year journey.
With the help from Charles Warner Chevrolet in Lincoln students from Lincoln University took the top spots in the photography category - first prize went to Amii Errington, second place to Jon W Higgins and third place to Elizabeth Cheek.
Keith Jones, a lecturer from Lincoln University had contacted Charles Warner Chevrolet in January to ask for some background information on Chevrolet for the students taking place on the scheme. Nigel Burley, Sales Manager at Charles Warner invited the students to the Outer Circle Road dealership where he talked them through the history of Louis Chevrolet and the Chevrolet brand to give them inspiration for their entries.
The students then returned to Charles Warner in April with their photographic equipment and carried out a photo shoot of an Orlando in the showroom. Charles Warner Lincoln was established in the 1920s and is a family owned company now in its third generation. A photograph album, used back in the 1920s by the original Charles Warner, showing Chevrolet models that they were selling at the time has been passed on through the generations and is now looked after by Nigel, and he offered the students the opportunity to photograph this vintage album alongside the 2011 Orlando.
Nigel says, “The students had some really innovative ideas on how to portray the centenary of Chevrolet. I am very proud and pleased to have been of assistance and am delighted that they achieved such a successful result.”
Amii Errington says, “I am thrilled to have been chosen the winner. I wanted to show the influence that the last hundred years has had on Chevrolet and to clearly distinguish between the old and new, but at the same time to show how the new design mirrors the old design in many ways.”
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