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]

Daimler Hire's Bloomsbury garage

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
  1. 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
  1. Historic England. "FRAMES COACH STATION AND LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN CAR PARK (1378855)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  2. Curl, James Stevens (2006). A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 0-19-860678-8.
  3. Sutcliffe, Anthony. (2006). London: An Architectural History. Yale University Press. p. 174. ISBN 0-300-11006-5.
  4. "The Chronicle of the Car", H. Thornton Rutter, Illustrated London News, 1 August 1931, p. 200.

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