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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [181v] (367/498)
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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354
Route IX—Section B— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total-
(vii) Special sanitary measures. —Nil.
(viii) Collection of supplies .—The surrounding
countryside is not fertile but the
ARADAN VERAMIN area is very
fertile and is within reach by M. T.
(50 miles). Local transport consists
of lorries 10—camels 20—horses and
mules 50—donkeys 200.
On leaving SAMNAN the road for the
first 3 miles follows the old road to
TEHRAN (Route 101).
B.
1
n
444|
Qanat.
B.
1
444f
Qanat.
B.
1
i
445
Qanat.
B
1
i
445|
Road crosses a stony nullah bed 25 yards
broad and liable to spate.
B.
1
i
445|
Ford 6 inches deep—10 yards broad
(August 1933) liable to spate. Another
nullah bed.
B.
1
i
446
Irrigation channel.
B.
1
n
447!
Old road to TEHRAN via LASJIRD and
VERAMIN and the northern edge of the
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
C. 1
2* 4491
5 454|
1! 456
2 458
KAVIR continues straight on south
west while the new road bears west
towards the village of MUMINABAD.
N) e. SURKHEH .s on the old road while
SAKKaH is on the n*'w.
MUMINABAD (12 houses) — Start of
almost unbroken ascent of 26 miles
ending at summit of BASHM pass.
New road makes a detour of 300 yards and
zigzags. Old road should not be follow
ed as it culminates in a rough patch of
1: 5 ascent.
Stony nullah crossing
liable to spate.
30 yards broad—
SARK AH—one house (a tea shop) by the
side of the road.
I 453| A sharp hairpin bend of radius 25 feet.
Great care is necessary over this two
mile stretch. The road is cut out of a
hillside, is narrow and very twisty and
the outside edges of the road very
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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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