Daimler Car Hire Garage Explained

The Daimler Car Hire Garage,^[1] a garage built for Daimler Hire Limited which later becamethe Frames Coach Station, in Herbrand Street, Bloomsbury, London, England was grade II listed by Historic England in 1982.

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]}

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Notes and References

1. This name has been used informally for the building, but Heritage England records it as "FRAMES COACH STATION AND LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN CAR PARK"
2. Book: Curl, James Stevens. A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. registration. 2nd. 2006. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 0-19-860678-8. 832.
3. Book: Sutcliffe, Anthony. [{{Google books|ONC1UsSpS4AC|page=174|plainurl=yes}} London: An Architectural History]. 2006. Yale University Press. 0-300-11006-5. 174.
4. "The Chronicle of the Car", H. Thornton Rutter, Illustrated London News, 1 August 1931, p. 200.