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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [210v] (425/498)
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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412
Route No. XII — contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
A. 1 1 128
A. 1 3 131
A, 1 3 134
A. I li 135|
A. 1 If 137
A. 1 i 137£
A. 1 li 134
A. 1 2 141
A. 1 3 144
A. 1 3 147
Road junction at northern end of by
pass—| a mile up the • RESHT fork
there is another junction, the left-hand
road leading to RESHT town, the right
road to PIR-I BAZAR—gendarmerie
post and small village. From here to
PAHLEVI the road has been realigned
and widened- Culverts for irrigation
water for the rice-fields cross under
the road in cylindrical cement pipes.
SHALIKUH (SHAKLU)—Single span
steel girder bridge 30' long, 12' road
way, 10' above stream level—appro
aches easy, stream fordable as regards
depth (1 2 ' to 2') but very muddy
bottom and banks.
Hamlet—sharp bend to the left—a blind
corner.
Hamlet.
Village 100 houses—ASHKIK.
Single span steel girder bridge 30’ long,
12’ roadway, 5’ above stream which is
narrow, shallow 7 and fordable.
Another similar bridge.
Small village.
Hamlet.
Single span steel girder bridge 20’ long,
12 roadway, 8' above stream level.
GURABJIR—
(i) Camping ground—A poor cramped site
amid jungle to the right of the road-
little more than a bivouac site—M. T.
must park on the road.
( 11 ) Water—Very muddy from a stream on
site and from unclean wells within
village.
All supplies very limited.
Succession of hamlets.
End of intensely cultivated portion-
country alternates with jungle and open
turf on a narrow spit between the sea
and the lagoon.
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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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