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‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’ [179r] (362/498)
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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349
Route IX—Section B—ccwfd.
Miles.
Classification. Inter. Total.
The stage DAULATABAD to GUSHEH
is a very hot one and the glare is trying
It crosses an arid gravel plain with no
shade.
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
B. 1
2 386 Unmetalled track strikes off to north.
3 389 Unmetalled tracks strike off to north-west
and south to AGIRA and AMIRVAN.
£ 389! Qanat.
4 389f Isolated group of hills of 200 feet relative
height i mile to north of road.
l£ 391 The road having skirted the foot of the
group of hills at mile 372f—the nearest
hills to the north are two miles distant.
Map. 16-1
B. 1 2 393 Unmetalled tracks to north and south.
B. 1 1 394 GUSHEH—20 houses—a
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
and
irrigation channel from a qanat to the
north (the last place with a good and
plentiful water supply until SAMNAN
is reached).
(i) Camping ground. —On either side of the
road—100 yards west of the village—
gravelly soil—sufficient for a brigade
—cover from air, nil—entrances and
exits easy—M T. can park in large
open space in front of
caravanserai
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
(ii) Water. —From irrigation channel or
qanat—plentiful—surface—perennial.
(iii) Fuel. —Brushwood plentiful.
(iv) Fodder. —Nil.
(v) Supplies. —Sufficient for 1 company
only but live-stock plentiful.
(vi) Petrol and oil. —Nil.
(vii) Special sanitary measures. —Nil.
(viii) Collection of supplies. —The surrounding
countryside is very barren and supplies
would have to be brought from DAM-
GHAN. The selection of this place
as a marching stage is dictated solely
by consideration of water and not on
its potentialities as a supply centre.
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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
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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