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File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’ [94r] (184/249)
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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aotioA p-'-ttiins further in structions. (^J
XW two altiiJtfUitlve ilifrreaents appear to beJ
( 1 ) >te oonvorarlon of the present - hwaz-Isfahan road
Infc, a routed suitable for vehicular traffic, and ( 2 )
t)e construction of a now route v.tiich would leave the
sxiatttK road at Malemlr and would approach Isfahan
vi& bru^ in. nils lattor route, which has been
prospected by Captain Uool in company with your
engineer, Mr. Gotham, appears to offer some advantages
over the fomer alternative, and I am to request that
you will be »o good as to inform me which of the two
alternative proposals your Company would prefer to
adopt.
The estimate for the construction of this latter
,000 road from Isfahan to Malamir ia utx hundred and eleven
thousand
Tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
for expenditure on labour which would
be incurred in Persia, find Forty two thousand pour.ts
for the purohuae of material which would have to be
bou, ht outside Persia.
Mr. Balfour presumes that you have receive i fro:
Mr. .’otham a full report of his sorveyp, but he will
be prepared, if this is not tho oese, oo supply you
with the substance of the reports whi ve heen
receive i from Osytnin Uocl.
I s»i, Oentlcmen,
Your most obedient*
humble cervemt,
(Signed) W. Langley.
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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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- 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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