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File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’ [14r] (23/249)
The record is made up of 1 item (123 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1914-13 Mar 1919. 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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20271JVW/54.
FOBSI'^I Of'TIC.'i,
December 2oth, l9in.
Mr ‘ ***** Balfbur has tod under consideration
your letter of ths 23rd July last forv.-arcllnr; a st temei
of out of pocket expenses amounting to Ki^t hundred
and elj'hty-two pomds sixteen shillings and ei.ght pem
Incurred by your engineer on the exaalnatlon and survev
that he Is unable to accept on behalf of itts ^Jesty's
Government responsibility for these out of pocket
cxnen ;ea, which were moreover presented so loir- after
the survey had been made. in view, however, of the
fact that His Majesty's Vice-consul ms accompanied
by Mr, j©ttom to examine the project in question find
to draw up a Joint report, ?lr. Balfour is prepared to
store the expenditure in question with your company.
Die secretary, ] ^ e
me Petr Him llran sport OtMpcmy, Limited,
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This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to British interests in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following:
- the Persian Transport Company considering the question of improving the Bakhtiari Lynch road between Ispahan and Ahwaz, so as to make it suitable for wheeled traffic, or to possibly find an easier route by another alignment
- the question of where the road should end, and possible Russian objections to the road terminating at Ispahan
- Captain Noel’s proposal of Kuh-i-Mangasht as a practicable hill station
- the expenses of the survey of the proposed new road, which was carried out by the engineer to the Persian Transport Company
The correspondence is largely between the following:
- HM Minister to Persia (Charles Murray Marling) and the Foreign Office
- Captain E Noel, HM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz, and Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson, Deputy Chief Political Officer, Basrah [Basra]
- Captain E Noel and Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer, Basrah
- The 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. and the Foreign Office
- The Persian Transport Company Limited and the Foreign Office
- HM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz, and HM Minister to Persia
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- 1 item (123 folios)
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- IOR/L/PS/10/451/2
- Title
- File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’
- Pages
- 3r:6v, 9r:20v, 21ar, 21r:71v, 73r:73v, 77r:77v, 79r:86v, 91r:94v, 97r:126v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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