| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, meeting notes, sketches and lists of works. This is Peter Edwin Turner's (Site Engineer for Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd) general correspondence file regarding the building programme and installations and includes materials on large variety of areas within his remit, such as lists of additional and remedial work and work outstanding, Olivier Theatre hoists, noise from scenery hoists, the drum revolve stage, measuring the torque required to turn the drum revolve, noise control for the drum, drum revolve stage elevator position control, drum revolve tooth belt drive, drum revolve drive tests, resetter proposals, resetter drives, stage wagons, power flying, matrix room CO2 installation repairs, Lyttelton false proscenium, the Rank Strand Electric Ltd contracts, scenery hoists, payment of invoices, wagon drives, Olivier wagon unit, ex-gratia payments to Mole-Richardson, format of progress reports, Switchboard TP3 and TP8, colour change units, Lyttelton house tabs, sound/fire and dividing doors, final certificate for the lightboard, VO5 installation working hours, remote control lighting installation, the National Theatre-Rank Strand Electric Ltd handover, time sheets, Hall Stage Equipment Ltd night working, masking screen, lighting hoists, Lower Theatre control system, a damaged control cable, remote control installation, maintenance manuals, the Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd sub-contract and final account, standby system, paint frame elevators, barrier rails, emergency escape route from the cyclo drive room and forestage elevators. Correspondents include Theatre Projects Consultants, Denys Lasdun Redhouse & Softley, Evershed Power-Optics Ltd, Crown House Engineering Ltd, The Radcliffe Group (Removal & Haulage Contractors), Bert Richman Ltd, the National Theatre, the South Bank Theatre Board, Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd, Ainslie Controls Ltd, Sound Research Laboratories Ltd, Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd, Tele-Stage Associates Ltd, Rank Strand Electric, Davis Belfield and Everest, M I N Barnet (design engineer), Flint & Neill, the Greater London Council (GLC) and A J Binyon Associates (Cartered Surveyors). Items include Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 showing a proposed test rig for the tooth belt drive (related to drawing number D14-426); a report titled 'Lyttelton Theatre Rear Stage Revolve Wagon - Consultants Report on Tenders'; an affidavit by Peter Edwin Turner in relation to the progress of work carried out by Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd, Hall Stage Engineering and Evershed Power Optics Limited with The South Bank Theatre Board; and a summary of the Lyttelton Theatre power flying installation. Original card folder disposed of. 'PET - N.T. Gen' and 'Ex P.E.T. File' were written on the front cover, and '904 NT GEN FEB 1979' was written on the spine. |