| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, file notes and sketches relating to the wagon and drum revolve cap, such as traction for the stage wagons, the revolve drive, false floor and anticipated difficulties and disagreements about the equipment. Correspondents include Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd, Evershed Power-Optics Ltd, P E Kemp Engineers Ltd, B D Engineering Services Ltd, Mole-Richardson (Stage and Studio Engineering) Ltd, Denys Lasdun Redhouse and Softley, the National Theatre, Tele-Stage Associates Ltd, South Bank Theatre Board, The Radcliff Group and R H Williams. Items include 3 sketches by P E Kemp Engineers Ltd - B/10, B/11, B/12 - 'L-NT Revolve', 'Traction - L.NT' and 'L.NT Traction Power Pack Diagrammatic'; a rough sketch of the drum revolve; sketch numbers 904 SK 1249 and 904 SK 1249 A 'Proposed Arrangement of Capping Disc to Facilitate Testing of Drum Revolve Stage'; 3 copies of a sketch 'Section Thro Drum Revolve' - one original and two annotated (1 duplicate copy removed); a letter from the South Bank Theatre Board requesting that that Tele-Stage Associates Ltd undertake the manufacture assembly and installation of the drum revolve cap; and a report on the false floor over the drum revolve. Original card folder disposed of. '904~5B16 P E Kemp Wagon and Drum Cap' was written on the spine. |