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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [178r] (360/498)
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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347
Route IX—Section B— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
B. 1 3611 BAQ village (100 houses).
B. 1 21 3631 Villages of BUZIDJAN and MAHIAN
to north and south of road.
B. 1 1 364 Unmetalled track to BUZIDJAN strikes
off to north.
B. 1 2 366 Road makes a detour to the north to avoid
very broken country near stream
between MAHIAN and DAMGHAN.
B. 1 2f 368f Road crosses stream by ford—width of
river bed 40 yards—width of stream 10
yards—depth of water 6 inches (August
1933)—sides 3 feet high. Stony nullah
bed—liable to spate.
B. 1 2 3701 DAMGHAN—P. O., T. O—population
20 , 000 .
(i) Camping ground. —1 mile west of town
—sufficient for a brigade—gravelly
soil—entrances and exits easy—cover
from air, nil—M. T. can park.
(ii) Water. —From streams on both sides
of the town—plentiful—surface—
perennial.
(iii) Fodder. —Plentiful.
(iv) Supplies. —Sufficient for a brigade.
Wheat, barley, lucerne grown locally,
almost the entire stock of which is
exported.
(v) Petrol and oil. —19,000 gallons and 1,000
gallons respectively.
(vi) Special sanitary measures. —Nil.
(vii) Collection of supplies. —If local stocks in*
sufficient the chief producing centres
within easy reach are QUDRATABAD
and MANSURABAD group of villages
lying respectively about 8 miles south
west and south of DAMGHAN.
Civilian M. T. lorries—camels 10—
horses and mules 30—donkeys 100
available.
B, 1 i 371 Road emerges from town into the
DAMGHAN plain which stretches to
the horizon to the south merging into
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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