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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [102r] (208/498)
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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TBiiii'fii r-w-niiaaia
195
Route V—Section C— contd.
•• Miles
Classification. Inter. Total.
A.
A.
li
2
493i
4954
Police post at exit from town.
ne w road (raised on an embankment
d high 15' wide loosely shingled to a
width of 8 , sides almost perpendicular)
takes off to the left and runs almost
straight through market gardens and
fields.
A. 1 7| 502f
A. 1 2b 507
AMINABAD two fine old sarais and a
tea house on the bank of a large irriga
tion channel spanned by a brick culvert.
(The old road turns and twists round
house ends and crosses innumerable
unbridged irrigation channels and reaches
AMINABAD in 10| miles.)
The road here finally leaves cultivation
and strikes out across bare desert. It is
commanded from the hills on the left but
not from the right.
Road junction. Route 42 (to AZNA and
KHUMAIN) takes off to the left over a
graveyard.
A. 1 If 504f The hills on the left recede and the road
is not commanded from any flank.
Tracks right and left—a qanat crosses the
road from left to right.
A. 1 14 5084 A qanat crosses the road from left to
right.
A. 1 3f 512 AMIRABAD—gendarmerie post—small
village—irrigation channel crosses the
road from left to right.
(i) Camping grownd.—Unlimited on'either
side—gravel plain—entrances and exits
easy—M. T. can park on site—cover
from air, nil.
(ii) Water. From the irrigation channel,
perennial, very slightly brackish but
drinkable, sufficient for a brigade.
No supplies of any kind.
The road heads straight and flat across a
stony and barren plain towards a low
range of hills visible ahead.
A. 1 If 513f A qanat crosses the road from left to
right; old road and mule track parallel
on right.
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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