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File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.' [55r] (114/514)
The record is made up of 1 volume (253 folios). It was created in 27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913. It was written in English and French. 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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53
No • 12«
M a'*
BRITISH CONSULATE,
BASRA.
February 25th, 1915.
Sir:-
V/ith reference to my despatch No. 51 of October
29th last, regarding arrangements at Basra for for
warding the Bagdad railv/ay material up river, I
have the honour to report, that Messrs. Lynch Brothers
began work on February 1st with the tug "Shirin" which
arrived on October 27th. They are unable however to
carry out the full terms of their agreement pending
the arrival of the other four tugs.
Under these circumstances, as the Railway Company
are pressing for the delivery of their material, the
steam tugs w Pionier", n Samarra" and "Tekrit”, brought
out by Messrs. Wonckhaus and Company, Agents for the
Hamburg American Line, are assisting in conveying the
material provisionally from Basra to Bagdad and will,
I understand, continue to do so until the Societe de
Transports fluviaux en Orient provide the necessary
His Excellency
The Right Honourable
Sir Gerard A. Lowther,
G.C.M.G.
[Knight] Grand Cross of [the Order of] St Michael and St George (accolade).
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The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
The principal correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office, the 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. , and the Board of Trade; and the Secretary of The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company.
The papers cover: contracts and agreements; Russian concern over the proposed agreement; the formation of a joint company to operate river transport on the Euphrates and Tigris; the assertion by Britain of exceptional rights to navigation on the rivers of Mesopotamia; and papers concerning the general Baghdad Railway question.
The French language content of the volume consists of contracts, agreements and conventions, with English translations.
The volume contains conventions and agreements that are earlier than the man date range, dated 1903-11.
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- 1 volume (253 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 1808 (Bagdad Railway) consists of one volume only. The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 255; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-254; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/271
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- File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:24v, 31r:31v, 34r:49v, 54r:59v, 61r:75v, 78r:81v, 83r:89v, 91r:135v, 138r:141v, 143r:145v, 192r:214v, 254r:254v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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