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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [89r] (182/498)
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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169
Route V—Section A— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
Opposite the SERRA CHENG Amnieh
Post a track leads off on to a spur
where a stone platform has been erected
in readiness for a gun emplacement.
The spur commands the whole of the
pass below the MIAN KUTAL SARAI
and the road running across the plain
to the DUKHTAR Pass (Mile 119£).
B. 1 2£ 129 MIAN KUTAL SARAI.
(i) Camping ground. —Restricted, stony and
unlevel site for a battalion in bivouac
below the sarai—entrances and exits
difficult—M. T. must park on road.
(ii) Water. —Good and perennial but limited
from a spring in the hillside 300 x north
east of the site—sufficient for a
battalion with tanks.
(iii) Fuel. —Abundant, the whole hillside is
covered with oak scrub and brush
wood.
(iv) Fodder. —Very scarce.
(v) Supplies. —Nil on site.
(vi) Petrol and oil. —Nil.
(vii) Special sanitary measures. —Nil.
(viii) Collection of supplies. —Impractical.
After leaving the sarai the scrub on
the hillside gets thicker.
c.
1.
4i
133i
Summit of the PIR-I-ZAN. The descent
is steep and rough but much shorter
than the ascent. There are two bad
hairpin bends, radius 20', half way
down.
Y B.
1
3
136i
Descent finished, road runs close under
the hills along the western edge of
the DASHT-I-ARJUN (or ARZHAN)
plain.
B.
1
*
136!
Gendarmerie post.
B.
1
5
141|
DASHT- 1- ARJUN — gendarmerie post—
Tel. O.—300 inhabitants. A village of
hovels—the old village having been des
troyed. On the hills east of the village
a platform has been erected in readiness
for a gun emplacement, commanding the
whole plain.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- ‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:245r, 247v, 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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