File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’

Content

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

Extent and format

1 item (123 folios)

It is part of

File 1187/1914 Pt 2-3 'Persia. Bakhtiari Road'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/451

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/451/2

Former external reference(s)

P 1187/1914 Pt 3

History of this record

Date(s)

8 Sep 1914-13 Mar 1919 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Roads

Places

BakhtiariAhwazIspahan

People & organisations

Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, Chief Political OfficerMesopotamia Expeditionary Force, Deputy Chief Political Officer

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File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/451/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100054818544.0x000001> [accessed 23 April 2024]

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