| Description | The file contains 'client' correspondence and enclosures sent between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and the National Theatre, and between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and the South Bank Theatre Board regarding a variety of subjects related to the machinery, including sound and communication problems, salary payments for additional work, state of completion of the work, testing, the feasibility of meeting the full technical specification after the South Bank opening; ex-gratia payments, liability for contractors who do not complete their contracts satisfactorily, the paint frame, noise during performances, reports of equipment failures, movement of the elevators, monitoring the contractors at work, maintenance and spares, problems with contractors Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd and Evershed Power-Optics Ltd, interference from thyristor dimmers, night access to the site, standby system, defects and delays and the handover schedule. Other correspondents include the Greater London Council (GLC); Evershed Power-Optics Ltd; the National Building Agency (NBA); Mole Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd; Davis, Belfield and Everest; Humphries Holdings Ltd; the Department of Education and Science; Chamberlin, Powell & Bon (Barbican); Rank Strand Electric Ltd; Lovell, White & King; and London Weekend Television. The file includes multiple reports to the South Bank Theatre Board on the progress on equipment in the Lyttelton and Olivier, congratulations to Richard Brett on getting married and minutes of the meetings of the South Bank Theatre Board. The original card folder has been disposed of. 'NT 1A (5)' was written on the front cover, and 'the National Theatre 904/1A File 5 From October 1976 Closed 8.10.77' was written on the spine. |