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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [173r] (345/642)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 11 Apr 1949-13 Apr 1950. 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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Bushire and Bandar ABBas and to improve existing port
maintenance equipment. No details are given of the
plant which will Be required for these purposes.
(c) Roads
The purchase of an unspecified amount of road Building
machinery, details of which are to Be given in O.C.I.’s
final report, is recommended.
(3) Air Ports
•The completion of runways and other installations at
Tabriz Airport is proposed.
4. Industry and Mining
(a) Cotton Textiles
Personnel .
Recruitment of a certain number of textile experts
to work as members of teams inspecting, installing,
purchasing machinery and instructing Persian operatives
in the rehabilitation of Government and private mills,
is recommended.
Goods
The report proposes a 50 per cent increase in the present
production of 70 million metres of cotton cloth, the
rehabilitation of two Government-owned mills and the
completion of the Government-owned cotton mill at Tehran.
Cement
The purchase of machinery for a new cement mill to
increase the capacity of the Tehran cement mill from 300
tons daily to 600 tons daily, is recommended. Plant for
the mechanization of the quarry for a new crushing plant
and raw material storage, will also Be required* The
report suggests the erection of a cement mill at a later
date to Be situated as near to Abadan as the availability of
raw materials will permit, and a possible erection during
the later stages of the Plan of the cement mills at Isfahan,
Tabriz, Meshed, Shiraz and the Caspian littoral.
Sugar
The report recommends the purchase of miscellaneous
equipment for the existing sugar factories including handling
equipment, diesel generators, farm machinery, spares and
service equipment.
Chemical Industries
The purchase of two additional furnaces for the existing
nitric acid plant, together with absorbing tower, earthenware
pipe fittings, receivers etc., is recommended. It is also
/suggested
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The file contains papers relating to the Working Party of the Middle East (Official) Committee. It mainly consists of Working Party papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office, and a register of these papers with notes at the back of the file.
The file includes agendas for meetings of the Working Party. It also includes papers circulated to members of the Working Party for consideration at meetings, relating to the following subjects: economic and social development in the Middle East in general; the Iraq Central Development Board; the question of an International Bank Loan for Iraq; a visit to Bahrain in January/February 1949 by Matthew Thomas Audsley; the Persian [Iranian] Seven-Year Plan; employment of British experts in the Middle East; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic factors in Middle East development.
In addition, the file includes papers relating to economic and social development of the following places: Iraq; Greater Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ; Saudi Arabia; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania [Libya], Eritrea, and Somalia; the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; the Lebannon; Ethiopia; Sudan; and Yemen.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 320; 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.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/4758
- Title
- Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:289v, 291r:320v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence