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File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’ [122r] (240/249)
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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[This Document is the Property of^His Britannic^la^st^sMovemment,
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Persian Transport Company is considering question
of improving Bakhtiari road so as to be suitable for
wheeled traffic or possibly find easier route by another
alignment and is thinking of sending their engineer to
Bakhtiari for survey.
Hoad concession only provides for levy of tolls on
pacK animals not carts or motors tut on the other hand^
conversion of rood to a cart road is contemplated ty
(cr. undecypherahle) Bakhtlarl agreemnt which was
approved by Persian Governments
Does Your Lordship consider that to onahle tolls -0
to levied on wheeled transport modification of concession
is necessary? If so would Persian Government for the par
-pose be regarded by Russian Government (? groups
omitted) in mind but there Is infringement of 1G07 agree
- oat seams that Ispahan Is In Eusslasi tone? I pre»,»>
, + + - h p ro ad'terminated on Bakhtin-1
that if improvements to tne roau.
border Russia could raise no k objection.
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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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- 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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