| Description | The file contains correspondence and enclosures, including drawing issue sheets, architect's instructions and completion certificates, sent between Theatre Projects Consultants Ltd and the architects, Denys Lasdun & Partners. Topics covered include Pye Ring intercom wiring, masking screen hoists, outstanding items of equipment, paintframe elevators, power flying, colours and finishes for control rooms, concerns about the Hall Stage Equipment contract and interim payments to them, scenery hoists, flooring for the drum revolve stage, the electrical installation, tape machines, luminaires, working light control panels, site security and safety, sound and communications installation, remote control, the Lower Theatre safety guard and publicity. Other correspondents include Formica Ltd; Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd; Hall Stage Equipment Ltd; Evershed Power-Optics Ltd; the South Bank Theatre Board; Flint & Neill Ltd; Mole Richardson (Stage & Studio Engineering) Ltd; Light Steelwork Ltd; Chubb Fire Security Ltd; William Mallinson & Vigers (Floors) Ltd; Pye Business Communications Ltd; Davis, Belfield and Everest; the National Theatre; the National Building Agency (NBA); Crown House Engineering Ltd; the Greater London Council (GLC); Humphries Holdings; and St. John-Lambert. The file also includes a full list of subcontractors and suppliers for the National Theatre contract and a bar chart showing the procedure for inspection and handover. The original folder has been disposed of. '904/2A the National Theatre - Architects 8. From 1.10.74' was written on the spine. |