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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [128r] (260/498)
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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247
Route VII—Section B— contd.
Miles
Classification, Inter. Total,
(i) Camping ground—On left of road-
unlimited space—sandy soil with
gravel surface—entrances and exits
easy—cover from air, nil—M. T. can
park on site.
(ii) lifter—From a qanat and tank-
perennial, sweet and sufficient for a
battalion.
No supply facilities of any sort.
Note. —Map again in error—there is no branch
telegraph line to AQDEH, the main line crosses road
from right to left at mile 318 .
A. 1 14i 323 AGHDA (AQDEH)—P. O., T. O., Tel.
O.; a straggly village of about 300 houses
with a large sarai.
(i) Camping ground—On right of road at
N. W. end of the village—unlimited
space—sandy soil with gravel surface
— entrances and exits easy—cover from
air, nil—M. T. can park on site.
(ii) Water. —Good, perennial and plentiful
from qanats and storage tanks.
(iii) Fuel. —A little brushwood and some
small orchards.
(iv) Fodder. —Very scarce.
(v) Supplies. —Very scarce.
(vi) Petrol and oil. —Nil.
(vii) Special sanitary measures. — Nil.
(viii) Collection of supplies .—Impossible.
A.
1
n
3244
Orchards—road emerges from village into
open country.
A.
1
!
325
2 qanats on left.
A.
1
li
3264
A qanat crosses road from left to right.
Some cultivation and 5 houses on right.
Road traverses a bleak gravel plateau^
A.
1
4£
3304
Road crosses a depression with salt
deposits.
A.
1
3|
3344
HUSSAINABAD—Sarai and gendarmerie
post—unlimited space for camp sites
exist—the water is brackish and there are
no supplies of any kind.
A.
1
1
335
Telegraph line bears away right.
A.
1
3404
Road crosses the dry beds of two nullahs.
A.
1
3*
344
A wide depression.
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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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