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Coll 28/42 ‘Persia. Motor-car Registration in East Persia. Issue of Driving Licenses and Visas to British & Persian subjects; Indian lorry drivers in Persia.’ [206r] (411/427)
The record is made up of 1 file (212 folios). It was created in 21 Dec 1931-10 Jan 1939. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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driver must proceed to Meshed* which would ents-il absence from
duty for a fortnight or more & considerable expense to Govern
ment. This in spite of the fact that the man holds an Indian
license & is an ex-N*C.O. of a Military transport unit &
manifestly an efficient driver.
7 # I have discussed the matter since arrival here with the
local Police Officer & enquired what was meant t>y 1 The Consul’s
responsibility* referred to in para.6 above. He informed me
that the issue of a license was solely to ensure that there
should be no dangerous drivers on the road. If an accident
took place 8c a pedestrian were killed the Court would auto
matically exhonerate a driver who held a license, for he must
surely be a good driver Sc the fault could not be hisV
8* The farcical nature of the regulations is apparent from a
recent occurrence near Mirjawa, where an Indian, who had no
license, upset his lorry through sheer carelessness & injured
a number of passengers including an Mnglish nurse. Probably
because the injured persons were all foreigners, the man has
not received any punishment.
9. I would therefore suggest that, the date from which we
should grant to Persians the facility of obtaining driving
licenses Sc of registering their vehicles at Hok-Kundi,should
co-incide with the date from which the Persians are prepared
to allow British drivers, resident far south of Meshed, to
enjoy similar facilities at ^ahidan Sc that until su^.^. time a
Persian driver who travels to Kundi should not be permitted
to return through British territory until he proceed to Quetta
to register his vehicles Sc obtain a driving license*
Copies of this despatch are being forwarded to the
Government of India, foreign and Political Department and to
the Hon’ble the Agent to the Governor General in Baluchistan,
quetta.
I have,etc.,
Sd/- C.K.Daly,
Major H.M. Consul
Sistan & Kain.
His Britannic Majesty’s Envoy
Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at the
Court of Persia, Tehran.
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Papers concerning the issue of licenses and visas for Persian and Indian lorry drivers operating between Duzdap [Zahedan] in the East Persian province of Sistan, and Nok Kundi in British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan]. The licenses were issued by the Governments of Persia [Iran] and India.
The correspondence includes: reports of social unrest in the border region between Persia and British Baluchistan from 1934 to 1936; the Persian military’s commandeering of lorries driven by Indians for the purposes of transporting Persian troops and provisions; reports of the ‘ill-treatment’ of some Indian drivers by the Persian military; compensation claims made by the British Government against the Persian Government, on behalf of Indian drivers who were injured or killed while driving through dangerous areas; discussion between the British and Persian Governments about the Anglo-Persian Treaty of 1857, and the entitlement of British subjects in Persia to ‘most-favoured nation treatment’.
The file’s principal correspondents include: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson; the British Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn], Clive Kirkpatrick Daly; the Foreign Department of the Government of India; the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.
The file contains several items of correspondence and newspaper cuttings in French, and a single item in Persian.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (212 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 213; 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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- English, French and Persian in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- Coll 28/42 ‘Persia. Motor-car Registration in East Persia. Issue of Driving Licenses and Visas to British & Persian subjects; Indian lorry drivers in Persia.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 8r:13v, 16r:47v, 54r:73v, 75r:89v, 91r:169v, 171r:201v, 203r:213v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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