| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, including drawing issue sheets, sketches and architect's instructions, sent between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and the architects, Denys Lasdun & Partners. Subjects covered include updates on the progress of the work and unresolved issues, load allowances for galleries, resignations at Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd, speaker layouts, a tender for steel planking in the fly tower grids, the Lower Theatre safety curtain, the issue of velographs, an estimate for fitting out the Studio Theatre, reinstatements and improvements, cost of equipment, the 'improvement' fund, the positions of the sub-contracts, power flying, the proscenium elevators and the projection room and control room windows. Other correspondents include the District Surveyor (the Greater London Council (GLC)); Davis, Belfield and Everest; Armstrong Cork Company Ltd; Henry R Humphreys (acoustical consultant); Dexion Ltd; Flint & Neill Ltd; Ferodo Ltd; Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd; Mole Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd; HMC Wheels Ltd; Marking Workshop; G R Winch (University of Manchester School of Architecture); J W Gray & Sons Ltd; Crown House Engineering Ltd; Lucas Metal Working Co Ltd; the South Bank Theatre Board; and the National Theatre. The file includes sketch number 904/SK 470 'Lower Theatre Lighting Slots (Based on 552/02/4601)'; sketch number 904/SK 477 'T.V. Aerials'; sketch number 552/02/1 Aug 1972 'Upper Theatre and Offices Group Section Through Music Studio and Practice Rooms Midway Between Gridlines 5 and 6'; sketch number 904/SK/490 'Alternative Form of Safety Curtain Join'; a tender and revised tender for fitting out the Studio Theatre; and a press release about the transport of the drum revolve from Norfolk to London. The original card folder has been disposed of. '904/2A The New the National Theatre (Closed) 5 (Dead) Architects Corr. Denys Lasdun & Ptnr to May '73' was written on the spine, and '9004/2A Architect 5' was written on the front cover. |