| Description | The file mainly consists of Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd correspondence with the South Bank Theatre Board and the National Theatre, schedules and notes on meetings related to the progress of the project as it moved towards completion, including commissioning, schedules and timetables for completion of various aspects and whether they would be met, the post-contract timetable, the remaining records to be issued, the meetings of the Progress Committee and the 'Ginger Group' [not clear if they are one and the same], the progress of various sub-contractors and the need to apply pressure to them, and site supervision and supply. Correspondents include G F Nash; Joseph Lockwood; Max Rayne; Evershed Power-Optics Ltd; Humphries Holdings (parent company of Mole Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd); Denys Lasdun; Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd; Pye Business Communications Ltd; Mole Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd; Hall Stage Equipment Ltd; Davis, Belfield and Everest; Arts Council of Great Britain; and the National Building Agency (NBA). The original card folder has been disposed of. 'Progress 1C Mar 74-Jan 75' was written on the front cover, and '904/1C the National Theatre File 2 Closed' was written on the spine. |