| Admin/Biog History | Burnet Tait & Lorne was an architectural partnership formed in London, in 1930 by Sir John James Burnet (1857-1938), Thomas Smith Tait (1882-1954), and Francis Lorne (1889-1963). The partnership was dissolved in c 1948.
Inter-war period architecture was a subject which Stamp was researching throughout his career, and his widow Rosemary Hill published his manuscript posthumously: Stamp, G. and Hill, R. (foreword by.) (2024) Interwar : British architecture 1919-39. London: Profile Books. |
| Description | This file includes material compiled by Stamp concerning his research and work into the architects, Burnet, Tait, and Lorne, and the following buildings and designs:
-Glasgow standard tramcar
-McGeoch building, Glasgow
-Head Office Building, Clyde Port Authority, Glasgow
-Customs House, 298-306 Clyde Street, Glasgow
-British Museum, London
It also includes correspondence with Dawn McDowell concerning her work and research into Tait, and her petition for a blue plaque for Tait's home in Hampstead.
Of particular interest:
-letter, from Ian Stewart, dated 8 Sep 1993, concerning Burnet's design of the Glasgow Standard tramcar
-copy of an architectural drawing of 'Glasgow Standard Car, Phase 3' |
| Image Caption | First two pages of letter from Ian Stewart dated, 8 Sep 1993, concerning the Glasgow Standard tramcar |