| Description | The file contains handwritten file notes and lists, timetables and correspondence concerning the management of direct contracts to install stage equipment with a large number of contractors, including Pye Business Communications Ltd, Rank Strand Electrics Ltd and Evershed Power-Optics Ltd. The contents include notes listing contractors, schedules and progress; diagrams, programmes and timetables showing planned time spans and sequence for equipment installation; correspondence letting the contractors know that the South Bank Theatre Board have appointed the National Building Agency (NBA) to coordinate contractor access and needs; rules governing site access; speed and timing of payments to contractors; and the effects of power cuts on progress and theatre performances and the costs and feasibility of standby power. Correspondents include Pye Business Communications Ltd, the National Building Agency (NBA), CCT Theatre Lighting, Theatre Projects Lighting Ltd, Tele-Stage Associates Ltd, Alice (Stancoil) Ltd, Rank Strand Electric Ltd, Theatre Projects Sound Ltd, Denys Lasdun & Partners and Flint & Neill Ltd. Items include diagrams showing the installation periods for various bits of equipment 1974-1975, including Rank Strand Electric Ltd's 'National Theatre Controls Timetable' SK 84; and appendices to a report [of unknown date and title but possibly by Flint & Neill Ltd]: appendix I - "Estimate of Costs Arising in National Future Year from Adjustments of Performance Timings, Cancellations and Depressed Attendances Arising from Power Cuts'; appendix II 'Assessment of the Cost of Providing Standby Power Facilities'; Appendix III - 'Effects of Varying Discount Rates and Degrees of Risk'; and appendix IV 'Copies of Flint and Neill's Letters of 15th July and 23rd August 1974 to Denys Lasdun & Partners - together with an Addendum. Copies of Mr. Humphreys' Letters to P. Softley Esq. of 29th October and 26th November 1974'. Original card folder disposed of. '904/8B File 1 National Theatre - Direct Contracts (from July '74)' was written on the spine. |