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'Summary of correspondence relative to the administration of the Port of Basrah and measures for the control of the shipping traffic in Mesopotamia.' [48v] (96/134)
The record is made up of 1 volume (66 folios). It was created in 16 Sep 1916. 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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One wood lathe.
One pillar drill, (under erection.)
One grind stone.
Power House.
One Robey horizontal engine 125 B. H. P.
One 12 B. H. P. Rushton Proctor single cylinder engine co mplete with
boiler for driving electric light plan.
One 16 K. W. 225 volt compound wound generator.
One 10 K. W. 225 volt compound wound generator.
Portable Tools.
One Oxy Acetylene cutting and welding plant.
Three portable bench drills.
One rivet heating furnace.
Twelve 20th century rivet heating forges.
One floating air compressors complete with boiler and air main and tools,
rivetting hammer?, Pneumatic dollies, airdrills, and caulking hammers.
The Compressor is capable of working four hammers and fjur "holders
on " at once.
Construction and Outside Plant.
Two Scotch derrick cranes to lift 10 tons at. 40' radius (one for jetty, one
for slipway.)
One five-ton steam hoist.
One Sisson and White Endless chain steam pile driver, fitted with telescopic
leaders and 30 cwt. top.
One Ransome Concrete mixer 10 cubic feet capacity ; outturn one batch in
3 minutes.
One 1 cubic foot concrete mixer.
One 40 cubic feet Bells Dredger fitted with digging tines.
One crab winch capable of lifting 410ns, direct from the barrel. Two 30 B. H.
P. (12 Nominal Horse Power) Steam portable engines, originally ordered lor
" Reserve'' shop up country.
Caissofty
The steel work for two strakes and the extra ave vYash top plate, neces*
sary service bolts, parallel drifts and rivets (at present being landed).
Four 5 ton crab winches' complete with ropes for drawing the caisson up
against the sill and side stops.
'1 he special bottom plate which will carry the keel and also the side posts,
keel, sill timbers and teak planking for the bottom of the caisson^ are all on
order from India.
One Reavell-Tangye direct connected oil engine driven ft' centrifugal pump
for pumping out caisson.
The special six way suction piece and all pipework and foot-valves for the
various compartments in the caisson on order trom India.
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This secret summary was compiled by the Army Department, War Section Case and printed in Simla in September 1919. It contains letters and telegrams sent from 11 December 1915 to 14 August 1916 between the officers of the Government of India and the Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy on the administration of the Port of Basrah [Basra].
The summary also contains 'Report of Major-General G F MacMunn's Committee on the Organization of the River Service in Mesopotamia' (folios 58-66), with recommendations for the Royal India Marine Services, on the method of employing existing and forthcoming vessels, and measures for the control of the shipping traffic on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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- 1 volume (66 folios)
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The foliation sequence commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- IOR/L/MIL/17/15/131
- Title
- 'Summary of correspondence relative to the administration of the Port of Basrah and measures for the control of the shipping traffic in Mesopotamia.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:24r, 25v:34v, 36v:66v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence