| Description | The file contains correspondence enclosures such as architect's instructions, meeting minutes sketches and drawing issue sheets sent between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and the architects, Denys Lasdun & Partners covering various aspects of the equipment and its installation, including costings for Upper Theatre lighting bridges, fitting of loud speakers, scenery lift heat dissipation, the Upper Theatre control rooms, paintframe elevators, slide projection, coordination of drawings between sub-contractors, Lower Theatre cat ladder and safety gate modifications, box office wiring, accepting new tenders for stage equipment not completed by Mole-Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd, chandeliers, progress of sub-contracts, the electrical installation, emergency signage, requests for variation orders (V.O.), drum revolve problems and lack of information for Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons about stage equipment. Other correspondents include Mole Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd; Tele-stage Associates Ltd; the National Theatre; The Lettering Centre; Ascog Ltd; Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd; Universal Metal Furring & Lathing Co Ltd; Flint & Neill Ltd; the South Bank Theatre Board; Davis, Belfield and Everest; EMI; Crown House Engineering Ltd; Evershed Power-Optics Ltd; The Transformer & Electrical Co Ltd; Renton Howard Wood Partnership; and Peter Hall. The file includes sketch number 552/SK/4.5.73 'Upper Theatre Fly Galleries Curb Detail at Support' and number 552/SK/4.5.73 'Upper Theatre Fly Town Galleries Curb Detail', and sketch number SK 552/7/8/73/1 'National Theatre Alternative Form of Safety Curtain'. The original card folder has been disposed of. '904/2A The National - Architect. 6 To 31/12/73.' was written on the spine. |