| Description | Loose drawings, sketches, handwritten notes, notes on meetings, specifications and correspondence, including memorandums and letters and enclosed quotations regarding the early planning stages of the National Theatre communications installation. The material consists of very rough sketches of drawings to be drafted, including 904/378.1 of the conductor's stand, 904/349 'General Purpose Unit for Offices / Backstage Etc During Rehearsals Special Productions', 904/373 showing the lighting and sound control panels, 904/348 'National Theatre Stage Management Panel Layout', 904/377 'Production Desk (rough)', 904/372 'New [Piro] Circuit', 904/371 'Tie Line Schematic', 904/380 showing a panel with radio mics, 904/379 showing the CCTV circuits, two versions of sketch 904/341 showing announcement point panels AP1, AP2 and AP3, 904/342 'Paging Panels for Stage Doorkeeper and Telephone Switchboard' and 'Paging Panels for Rehearsal Room', 904/349 'Ring Intercom Unit for Headsets - for General Mobile Stage Area Use', 904/324 'Mounting Heights', sketch 904/340 'CCR' and other rough diagrams of equipment and electrical layouts; notes on mics; notes on and lists of communications and lighting drawings; notes on communications equipment in the Olivier and Lyttelton; list of communications drawings to be completed; various early letters and correspondence between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd (and earlier Theatre Projects (Sound) Ltd) and Westrex Co Ltd, Stagesound (London) Ltd, Pye TVT Ltd, Herny R Humphreys (Registered Architect), Denys Lasdun & Partners, Philips Sound Division, The National Theatre, Elcom (Northampton) Ltd, Reliance Telephone Co Ltd, Sound Coverage Ltd and EMI Ltd regarding the sourcing of sound equipment, with enclosures including quotations from Stagesound (London) Ltd, Spembly Ltd, Pye TVT Ltd and Westrex Co Ltd, a small photocopy of a sketch RGB/SK 162 showing The Studio floor, and a copy of specification 904/SC1 'Breakdown of specifications and possible sub-contracts on stage equipment installation'. There was a loose folder in the box that was marked 'T.P. Sound National Theatre' [it may have originally enclosed the notes]. |