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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [119r] (242/498)
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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229
Route VI—Section B— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
B. 1 4| 269|
B. 1 5| 275|
B. 1 5 280fc
B. 1 U 2811
B. 1 li 283
B. 1 2 285
B. 1 3| 288|
B. 1 i 289
B. 1 2 291
B. 1 5 296
(ii)
Writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
.—Good and plentiful from a
qanat.
(iii) Petrol and oil. —Nil.
All other supplies very scarce (from
SAADATABAD). Road still climbs.
Northern section of SAADATABAD loop
road (from large village of SAADAT
ABAD) joins from left.
Village of DARJASSI in an orchard with
irrigation channels.
(i) Camping ground— On left of road before
entering village—space for a battalion
in bivouac—stony soil—entrances and
exits difficult—cover from air, nil—M.
T. must park on roadside.
(ii) Water .—Good and plentiful from a
qanat. No supplies of any kind.
Road drops for i of a mile and climbs again
1st summit— last 100* of ascent and first
100* of descent steep and dangerous.
Map 24-C.
Steep and tortuous descent of 40* to paved
Iriih bridge.
After a mile of sharply undulating country
another summit is reached followed by a
50* descent of 1: 5.
A short (10*) descent of 1: 4.
Descent finished—road starts to climb to
last summit.
Old road takes off right and is seen to
climb the pass.
Some cultivation on the left.
Five peaks of the KUH-I-PANJ seen
clearly 2 miles to the left.
Summit of KHAN-I-SURKH pass (about
8 , 100 ').
Cultivation and some huts.
Descent is less steep and less tortuous than
ascent.
KHAN-I-SURKH—Sarai.
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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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