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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [153r] (310/498)
The record is made up of 1 volume (245 folios). It was created in 1942. 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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297
Route VIII—Section B— contd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
B. 1 342£
B 1 2i 344-i
B. 1 { 344|
B. 1 U 346}
B. 1 } 346}
B. 1 2} 348|
B. 1 I 34Q|
B. 1 } 350}
B. 1 1} 35 If
B. 1 } 352
B, 1 2 354
B. 1 ! 354f
B. 1 } 355}
B. 1 1} 356}
B. 1 3} 360
B. 1 2} 362}
RUM. Village—120 houses—500 inhabit
ants—cultivation and stream—50 khar-
wars of wheat could be purchased—
flocks of sheep and goat numerous.
The road past the village skirts a hillside
with many steep and blind corners.
M.T. would have to drive with care.
Road widens and surface improves.
Ruined village. Small stream.
Spring and stream. Small gardens.
(i) Camp Site .—Site sufficient for a bat
talion (in garden)—M. T. park by side
of road. Cover from air in garden and
nullah nearby.
(ii) Water. —Plentiful.
(iii) Supplies .—Wheat, obtainable from
RUM as shown above—meat on hoof
obtainable.
(iv) FMe/.—Sufficient from the garden and
hills.
(v) Fodder .—Fair grazing in spring.
Road runs up river bed.
Small spring and stream. P.W.D. Post.
Ascent steep and winding with many blind
corners to top of pass (DASHT-I-
GIRRA). Gradient 1/8.
Steep and winding descent.
Small pond.
KHANIK village— stream and cultivation.
KHURWAJ. Village—15 houses. Stream
and garden. Road continues to descend
steadily through the hills.
Nullah crossing.
Road leaves hills and enters a sloping
plain (slope to the north).
Water ambar.
Nullah crossing.
Road enters the gardens of KAII\
(QAIN).
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The volume details motor transport (‘M.T.’) routes in Persia [Iran]. The volume, which is numbered I, covers the main routes in Persia, and was produced by the General Staff, India. It was printed by M Abdul Hameed Khan, Manager of the Feroz Printing Works, Lahore, in 1942. An introduction (folio 3) states that the volume has been updated on the basis of reports received in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia in August 1941.
The volume comprises details of sixty-five routes, listed on the contents page, between various towns and cities in Persia. Details given for each route include:
- an overview (distance, number of stages, references to maps);
- a general report (classification of route, surface and grading, character of adjacent country, climatic effects, exceptional features, repair and supply facilities, water, fuel, fodder and grazing supplies);
- a detailed report (villages and other landmarks encountered, road classifications, distances).
A handwritten annotation on folio 5 (author unknown) states that ‘distances are somewhat overestimated throughout this report.’ The volume includes a map in a pocket attached to the inside back cover (folio 246).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (245 folios)
- Arrangement
A contents list (f 4) and index (ff 240-245) reference the volume’s original pagination.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 247; 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.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- ‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:245r, 247v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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