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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [111v] (227/498)
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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214
Route VI—Section A— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
H
I
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2
li
a
a
2£
a
64
7
74
94
10
114
124
13|
164
174
SHAGUN—100 reed huts—TASBAR
4 mile right (20 houses).
Road turns half left and runs due north.
A well by the roadside—sweet water.
Road enters very broken country consist
ing of sandstone in large slabs. Road is
commanded from both sides and runs up
a dry and wide nullah bed.
Road climbs out of nullah bed but is still
commanded from hills 1 mile left.
CHAH CHAKUR—Sarai and huts to left
of road.
(i) Camping ground—To the east of the
road—space for a battalion in bivouac
only-surface of large boulders—
entrances and exits difficult—cover
from air, nil—M. T. must park on
roadside.
(^) Vj^Gter. A qanat of sweet water—
depth 10 feet—sufficient for a battalion
ropes and buckets required.
(iii) Fuel—A very little brushwood.
(iv) Fodder. —Nil.
(v) Supplies—Some dates only.
(vi) Petrol and oil. —Nil.
(vii) Special sanitary measures .—'Nil.
(viii) Collection of supplies.—From BANDAR
ABBAS only.
Cross bed of RUD-I-HURMUDAR—
100 x wide—dry except after very heavy
ram.
Road runs among low sandstone hills.
Road ascends low pass 4 mile long-
maximum gradient 1: 25 and emerges on
to a wide boulder strewn plain. The
heat here in summer at midday is too
severe for troops to march in.
Track right.
Low range of hills start—100 x to left—
paved Irish bridge over deep nullah 35 x
wide—sides 30 deep.
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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.
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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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