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'Military Report on The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's (South Iranian) Oilfield Area' [36r] (80/150)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1940. 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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59
Vo. 21 Oil Jetty. Steel with concrete deck. Two concrete
datSnwV 240, ' DePth bel ° W datUm 32/ - Height ab ° T - e
Ao. 22 Oil Jetty.—ditto. Length .340'. Depth 32'. Height 12' 6".
T enath 3 Jetty u ' at * r ^PPb action lines.-
^ength .*() . Ao ships are allowed alongside this jetty.
Ao. 24 Oil Jetty .—Steel with concrete deck ; two concrete
datum n i2' 24 ' r ' DePth bel ° W datUm 16 '- Height above
-Vo. 2-5 Oil Jetty. Steel with concrete deck. Two steel dol-
datum uT 470, ' T * epth bel ° W datUm 32 '- Height above
-Vo. 26 Oil Jetty. Steel with concrete deck. Two steel dol-
datuiii 12'T be, ° W dafcnm 32, • Hoi ^ bt above
\ ra T l Z”*™* Jetty. Pipe pile with steel plated
deck. For local craft only. Depth of water—dry at low tide.
3. Landing Places other than at Abadan Port.
Other than a,t Abadan itself, there are only two places on the
tions^HThese arJ - ^ f ° r Iandin « opera-
is known ~ KMba
(i) A stretch of four and a half miles in the centre of which is
Khosrowabad. a new A. I. O. C. oil delivery point, one and
a half miles south of Abdul Husain village.
At both places the date palm groves, which at some places
on the island run inland to a depth of about three miles, are only
a few hundred yards wide. At Khosrowabad the bank is entirely
open for about eight hundred yards to the south of the oil port
f ° ll d be P osaible at both P laces for large self-propelled landing
craft to be used- right up to the bank. TransportVcould stand
in and men and animals could walk from the ships to lighters
and ^ ^0 " , h f hter8 to ^ shore. From Khosrowabad a good
metalled road seventeen miles in length runs to Abadan.
Elsewhere on the island mud flats, intensive palm cultivation
?mpos a sible yn ^ Water Channels make lan ding operations
About this item
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Military report compiled at the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, and printed in Simla by The Manager, Government of India Press, 1940.
The volume begins with a preface (folio 3) in which notes on authorities consulted in compiling the report are given. The rest of the report is divided into nine chapters (I-IX), plus appendices, each covering a different subject, as follows:
- Chapter I: General Description of the Area
- Chapter II: Climate
- Chapter III: Population
- Chapter IV: Base Ports
- Chapter V: Lines of Communication and Transportation Facilities
- Chapter VI: Signal Communications
- Chapter VII: Economic Resources and Supplies
- Chapter VIII: Engineer and Ordnance Facilities
- Chapter IX: Medical Facilities
- Appendices
In a pocket at the back of the volume are the following maps and charts:
- Abadan and Bawarda (map) (folio 64)
- Naseri and Ahwaz, showing new bridge (map) (folio 65)
- Dar-i-Khazineh (map) (folio 66)
- Diagram of wireless communications (map) (folio 67)
- Sketch map showing flood water, February-March 1938 (folio 68)
- Road distance mileage chart (folio 69)
- Comparative bridge loading table (folio 70)
One of the maps listed in the contents is missing: 'Map of A. I. O. C. [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Central and Southern areas showing oilfields, pipelines, telephone and telegraph lines'.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (69 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 5-6) which refers to 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 71; 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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- 'Military Report on The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's (South Iranian) Oilfield Area'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 8ar, 8r:8v, 9ar, 9r:12v, 12av, 13ar, 13r:63v, 69r:70v, 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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