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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [123r] (250/498)
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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237
Route VII—Section A— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total-
“ Summer road only ” Winter road keeps
to higher ground to the north and crosses
numerous nullahs very cut up by the
effects of rain water.
A.
1
10
00
Road recently constructed on an embank
ment 3' high to carry it across a patch
of Daqq liable to inundation.
A.
1
n
50
BAQIRABAD (BAKILABAD) a few
huts.
For a stretch of 2 miles the road is metalled
and not merely shingled.
A.
1
3|
53f
KABUTAR KHAN—(50 houses)—gen
darmerie post.
(i) Camping ground—On right of road—
sufficient for a brigade—stony surface
—entrances and exits easy—cover
from air, nil—M. T. can park on site.
(ii) Water. —From a qanat or two streams
of sweet water—plentiful—good.
(iii) Fuel. —Nil.
(iv) Fodder. —Nil.
(v) Supplies. —Very scarce.
(vi) Petrol and oil. —Nil.
(vii) Special sanitary measures. —Nil.
(viii) Collecti n cf supplies —KERMAN or
RAFS1NJAN nearest centre.
Note. - From this point onwards the degree sheet is
very inaccurate.
A. 1 i 541
A. 1 1| 56
A. 1 3} 59|
A. 1 31 631
A. 1 61 60J
Telegiaph line and summer road join
from left.
Irrigation channel and tea house open
desert for 10 miles right and left.
Dry bed of LALEZAR river 100* wide—
liable to spate.
Very slight ascent over gravel hills.
Irrigation chrnnel crosses road from left
and continues alongside of road on right
fcr 2 miles—a small fort visible 5 miles
to right.
Telegraph line strikes away to the right.
Telegraph line 2 miles to the 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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