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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [141v] (282/817)
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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I he Hoad Transport Department has (on paper) 1272 contracted lor
ries. I lie correctness of this figure may be doubted, since, in numerous
cases, it has been established that one lorry has been operating under two
or three different police numbers. On 4 Aban, 1322 (27 October. 1943) the
whereabouts of only 650 contracted lorries were definitely known. The con
tractors have been unable to furnish accurate information regarding the
disposition of the fleet. Neither the Hoad Transport Department nor the
the contractors themselves have had adequate control over these contracted
trucks; and it has not been possible to depend on these trucks to remain
on any specified operation for any length of time.
It should be noted that on 12 Aban, eighty of the Iranian Government
Pool lorries, less than 10 per cent of the total number, were under repair;
on the other hand, at least 25 or 30 per cent of the contract fleet has been
continually laid up for repairs.
Moreover, neither the Iranian Government Pool lorries nor the con
tracted lorries which are in operation operate at anywhere near full effi
ciency.
I lu principal icasons lor the unsatisfactory transportation situation
are (1) shortcomings in organization and administration, (2) inflation, ^inad
equate control, and (4) insffucient maintenance facilities.
Shoi (comings in organization and administration are due in part to
the lack of a trained and experienced supervisory personnel. This is said
without any disparagement of the work of the American officials now in
the Hoad Transport Department. They have worked well; but there have
not been enough of them, and they have not had time enough. In a highly
technical branch of administration where they have been under extreme
pressure, they have had to cope with those long-standing conditions which
have thrown the work of the entire Government into disorder and reduced
it to a low state of efficiencv, 1 ransport has been seriously handicapped,
like other administrations of the Government, by the disorganization which
has prevailed in the provinces. If we had insufficient time a capable Ame
rican in every district of Iran, the organization and administration of trans
port, like the organization and administration of other governmental work,
would have markedly improved. Measures to improve organization and ad
ministration were foreseen months ago and are now rapidly coming to
fruition.
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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
- 187r:200v, 176r:186v, 162r:175v, 149r:161v, 138r:148v, 126r:137v, 109r:125v, 84r:108v, 68r:83v
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- Bank Melli Iran
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