Reference
CA2/233
Title
Sandy: Elderly Persons Home, 'Stonecroft'. Heating etc. (P308).
W/S4/P1
Date free text
1966-1968
Production date
From: 1966 To: 1968
Scope and Content
Manuscript letter (difficult to read) to be sent to Sandy Urban District Council regarding Central Heating; undated
Typewritten version of above regarding 'Senior Citizens Bungalows, Stone Road, Sandy', from County Architect; 10 November 1966
Letter sent to 6 contractors (see below) requesting quotations to be returned before 9am 21 July 1967
John Corby & Son (Bedford) Ltd
Kershaw Heating Ltd
C F Heating Installations Ltd
L A H Ames Ltd
T Simons & Sons Ltd
S Smart & Company
Letter from Surveyor to C F Heating Installations Ltd, Melbourne Street, Bedford, complaining about lack of progress 'I advised you that it would be a tight schedule on this scheme and that the utmost co-operation between us all would be imperative... Obviously we cannot [rely on you] unless from here on you can see your way to pull your weight and co-operate fully'; 16 October 1967
Letter from L A H Ames Ltd, Bedford Road, Wootton, to Sandy Urban District Council: 'this delay [by C F Heating Installations Ltd] is seriously affecting our progress on this job and we must point out that we cannot be held responsible for any delay which can be attributed to the Heating Installation' and suggest using an additional Heating Engineer 'to speed up completion'; 27 November 1967
Invitation to K W Banks, Esquire, to the Official Opening of the Elderly Persons Estate known as Stonecroft, High Street, Sandy; 3pm Friday 14 June 1968; ceremony to be performed by Major Simon Whitbread, J.P., Chairman of Bedfordshire County Council
Manuscript (31 May 1968) and typwritten letter (7 June 1968) from County Architect to C F Heating Installations Ltd itemising 8 defects and omissions
Letter from County Architect to J A Wady (Electrical Contractors) Ltd, Balsall Street, Bedford, inviting quotation for a stand-by generator in the boiler house 'in the event of a mains power failure' 7 June 1968
Quotation from J A Wady (Electrical Contractors) Ltd; 16 August 1968
Supply of standby generator (as per attached tender) £492..2s
transporting generator from railway to site,
unpack and assemble and modify boiler house wiring £ 48..12s
extending exhaust system (provisional sum) £ 25
Emergency Lighting £ 59..17s
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£625..11s
List of omissions/defects (12 in total) to L A H Ames Ltd regarding invoice from C F Heating Installations Ltd (manuscript 10 September 1968) (typewritten 20 October 1968)
'I would advise you that before any payment can be met, the following items require attention'
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