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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [33v] (71/498)
The record is made up of 1 volume (245 folios). It was created in 1942. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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58
Route II-B— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
C. 1 k 6 f
C. 1 k 7
C. 1 6 i 13!
c.
1
u
144
c.
l
11
164
c.
1
h
16|
c.
1
H
00
rH
c.
1
11
20
c.
1
2!
224
c.
1
24
25
c.
1
14
264
C. 1 li 27J
Keep left.
Stony
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
bed 12 ft. wide—dry in summer
—liable to spate. Road starts the long
steep and tortuous ascent erf the KARA-
KHAIEH Pass. (SIAH-PAYEH on
!" map). The road is narrow and the
six hair-pin bends in the ascent have
an average radius of 12 ft (? M. T.
Routes in IRAN gives radius as 20').
The soil is soft and the drainage poor.
A very difficult climb.
Summit. The descent is not so steep, so
long or so tortuous as the ascent, but
the red clay would give trouble in wet
weather.
Small spring and stream on right of road
—bad interlude of one mile.
A short stretch of very steep and tortuous
descent (Average gradient 1— 6 ) to a
ford over a small stream and a steep
rise thereafter. The road is unmetalled.
QARAWEL (50 houses) on right. Road
ascends very sharply with many hairpin
bends.
Summit—gentle descent of ! mile. Spring,
pond and good camp site on right.
After rising again road reaches next
summit from which the descent is
gentle.
Stream, cultivation and tea house.
Spring and pond on left.
HUSAINHABAD—Gendarmerie post—
150 houses and cultivation on left.
(a) Camping grounds. —On left—sandy
soil, stony surface—entrance and exits
difficult. Sufficient for Bde.—M. T.
must park on road.
(b) Water. —From the QISHLAQ river on
left—perennial, plentiful and good, or
from an irrigation channel on the site.
Turn left over two fords and over
rough patch of country for 200 yards.
Gentle ascent up narrow cultivated valley.
Metalled road,
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The volume details motor transport (‘M.T.’) routes in Persia [Iran]. The volume, which is numbered I, covers the main routes in Persia, and was produced by the General Staff, India. It was printed by M Abdul Hameed Khan, Manager of the Feroz Printing Works, Lahore, in 1942. An introduction (folio 3) states that the volume has been updated on the basis of reports received in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia in August 1941.
The volume comprises details of sixty-five routes, listed on the contents page, between various towns and cities in Persia. Details given for each route include:
- an overview (distance, number of stages, references to maps);
- a general report (classification of route, surface and grading, character of adjacent country, climatic effects, exceptional features, repair and supply facilities, water, fuel, fodder and grazing supplies);
- a detailed report (villages and other landmarks encountered, road classifications, distances).
A handwritten annotation on folio 5 (author unknown) states that ‘distances are somewhat overestimated throughout this report.’ The volume includes a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 246).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (245 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (f 4) and index (ff 240-245) reference the volume’s original pagination.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 247; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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