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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [20v] (40/817)
The record is made up of 1 file (407 folios). It was created in 7 Sep 1938-1 Jan 1946. 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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At the Shahi Gunny
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
, the manager was changed, with a resultant con
siderable increase in efficiency of operation. Production of Hessian has been in
creased from the previous 800 meters per day, to an average of 2,400 meters per
day, production of Gunny bags is up from a previous average of 50 per day to a
daily average of 7o0 per day. This increase has been effected through better dis
cipline, better management, and the discharge of several employees.
At the Beshahr Weaving Plant, conditions with regard to spares and labor were
found to be better than at Shahi. The principal difficulty in the way of efficient
production at Beshahr was the lack of sufficient power. Arrangements are presently
undei way to semi engineers from the Tehran Municipal Power Plant to Beshahr
to recondition the generating equipment. With competent management and repair
to the generators, a production of fifty to sixty thousand meters per day should be
i^reve'nV ° nS£qUent reduction in P er ' meter cost and a substantial increase
Production of shoes at the Gas Mask
Factory
An East India Company trading post.
is up from a previous 300 pairs
per day to shghtly more than 500 per day. Plans are now being completed to raise
th.s figure to 750. Production of garments for the Army has been speeded up and
increased work put into the plant in the form of an order for twenty-thousand
complete uniforms for the Gendarmerie. iwemy inousand
durinTthTS ™r he inCreaSe in Pr0dUC,f0n at thr - 0f the Plants
Machine Guns, from 20 per day to 65 per day;
* <lfles ’ from 40 per day to 100 per day;
Cartridges, from 15,000 per day to 50,000 per day.
The Director of the Soap and Glycerine Fart™, w
factory
An East India Company trading post.
placed on a working day of sixleen hou s - on^ 66 " , rep,aCed and ,he
hours. Experiments to use cotton seed and other ve"etable S oils 'fat' rm' 0 ^ e ' RM
per kilo) in place of fats (at Rials 57 per kilo) have been successful- a^d ,h
so produced will be marketed through the Ministrv of r ’ d he Soap
against ration coupons in the Tehran area at a price of h C ° n ] merce and 'ndustry
present market price of soap. PnCe ° f about four rials Wow ,he
In co-operation with the Minister of Commerce, Industries .nr) m-
final of the Industrial Supervision Administration has been sent to d n M ' nes ’ an of ‘
pervise the reopening of the sulphur mines. An effort is to he m „H S , emna " lo su ‘
cost of sulphur production. ° be made to redl >« .he
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Papers reporting on the financial situation in Iran, sent by staff at the British Legation at Tehran (Horace James Seymour; Reader William Bullard) to the Foreign Office, London. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/3 ‘Persia. Financial situation’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3394).
The file includes:
- Covering letters enclosing copies of the monthly Bulletin , produced by the Bank Melli Iran (also referred to as the Mellié Iran Bank, and Banque Mellié Iran). The copies of Bulletin are not included in the file (although some front covers do survive), however the covering letters give short summaries of their lead articles.
- Details and estimates for Iran’s annual budgets, with numerous statistical tables.
- Correspondence dated December 1939 to February 1940 relating to irrevocable documentary confirmed credits (irrevocable letters of credit) opened by Bank Melli Iran through banks in India (ff 356-361).
- Copies of laws passed by the Iranian Parliament, including a law relating to war credits and treasury bills (in French, f 334), a Law for the Prevention of Hoarding (ff 325-329) and an Income Tax Law (ff 262-271).
- Correspondence and budget reports dated 1943-1944, produced during the takeover of the administration of Iran’s Finance Ministry by a mission from the United States, led by Arthur Chester Millspaugh.
At the front of the file (ff 4-200) are fourteen monthly reports of the Administrator General of the Finances of Iran (Millspaugh), produced according to the Solar Hijri calender, and dating from Ordibehesht 1322 (equivalent to the Gregorian calendar date of 22 April to 22 May 1943) to Mehr 1323 (23 September to 22 October 1944). The reports, which also contain lists of staff of the Iranian Ministry of Finance and its connected organisations, summarise Iranian finances. Many of the reports contain a map of Iran (for example, folio 185), showing borders, roads and railways, major towns and cities, and districts, which are numbered 1 to 10.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (407 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The file’s correspondence begins at folio 202 and ends at folio 407. Printed reports occupy the front portion of the file (with an enclosing note, ff 4-201), and are also arranged in reverse chronological order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 408; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3396
- Title
- Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’
- Pages
- 56r:67v, 38r:55v, 26r:37v, 16r:25v, 4r:15v
- Author
- Millspaugh, Arthur Chester
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