Daimler Car Hire Garage
The Daimler Car Hire Garage,[note 1] a garage built for Daimler Hire Limited and later known as the Frames Coach Station, in Herbrand Street, in the Bloomsbury district of London, is a grade II listed building with Historic England.[1]
History
The building was completed in 1931 for Daimler Hire Limited in the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles to a design by the architects Wallis, Gilbert and Partners.[2][3][4]
Notes
- This mistaken name for this building was coined by an American and published in a reference work by James Stevens Curl but it is not otherwise supported
References
- Historic England. "FRAMES COACH STATION AND LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN CAR PARK (1378855)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- Curl, James Stevens (2006). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 0-19-860678-8.
- Sutcliffe, Anthony. (2006). London: An Architectural History. Yale University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0-300-11006-5.
- "The Chronicle of the Car", H. Thornton Rutter, Illustrated London News, 1 August 1931, p. 200.
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