| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, meeting notes and budgets covering a variety of topics such as the proscenium lighting bridge; smoke outlets; proscenium stage dimmer room; lift doors; loading; fly tower and loads; equipment budget and costs; Studio Theatre loading requirements; Studio Theatre and Upper Theatre stage basement; contractors and the tendering process; drum revolve; backstage sliding doors; Studio floor; ventilation of stage basements; the recording studio; the Greater London Council's (GLC's) comments on entertainment licences, safety and fire equipment schedule, and requirements for the substructure contract; electrical installation; pipes; control rooms; fees; Richard Pilbrow's book; responsibility for the design of front of house and auditorium lighting; rehearsal rooms; foyers and sprinkler installation. Correspondents include Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd, Denys Lasdun & Partners, acoustical consultant Henry R. Humphreys, Davis Belfield & Everest, the Greater London Council (GLC), Flint & Neill Ltd, and Platt-Schindler Lifts Ltd. Items include schedule 904/SC9 'Costs and Design Position as at August 1970', an annotated copy of a drawing of the Proscenium Stage showing suspension rails for lighting, a copy of a section of two drawings showing the proposed parking and access for open theatre and foyers, a sketch 'Proposed Personnel Exit from Prompt Corner', a sketch of the proposed notice board for National Theatre site, sketch RGB/SK 162/16.9.69 of the Studio floor, sketches 904/SK/234//27.4.70 'Proposed New Pos'n Personnel Lift', 904/SK 234.A 'Movement of Personnel Lift and Perch Detail', a sketch 'Lower Theatre: Suggested Details at Iron Curtain (6.5.70), and annotated copies of drawing 552/04/6932 showing fly tower and personnel lifts. Original orange folder disposed of. 'Architect 2' was written on the front, and '904/2A The New National Theatre 2 Architects Corr. Denys Lasdun & Ptnr' was written on the spine.
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