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Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.' [12r] (23/46)
The record is made up of 1 file (21 folios). It was created in 1 Aug 1939-10 May 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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SECRET
©
Allotted to E.& 0. Department. 267 groups.
D, BCYPHER OP TELBORAM.
6636.
Prom
Dated
Received
Government of India, Supply Department, to Secretary of
State for India.
New Delhi, 12.36 hours, 6th December, 1939.
■t -
11.50 hours, 6th December, 1939.
XXX
994. 6/12. Second Part.
With regal’d to the second requirement for 200,000 tons
of rails. We can supply rails to meet this at the rate of
6,000 tons monthly commencing from one month after the
supply to meet the first demand has been completed, namely
April, 1941. If the rate of supply to meet the second
requirement is insufficient we can probably arrange to
accelerate but this will require considerable adjustment and
planning of industry. Our technical advisers express the
view that platelaying at the rate of 5,000 tons of rails a
month is as much as the Government of Iran are likely to be
able to undertake. Accessories. In your telegram you give
no details as to Iran’s requirements of these but from
Foreign Office letter No. E.7447/211/34 of November 16th
enclosed in your letter No. E.ot 0.8460/39 of November 22nd it
is clear that these will be required. We shall require to be
provided with detailed drawings, and specifications of the
accessories required. We anticipate that we can make
accessories such as points and crossings, sleepers, fish
plates, bearing plates, fish bolts and nuts if these are
substantially according to relevant British standard
specification but we shall be able to be more definite when
details and quantities of accessories have been furnished to
us. With regard to prices of rails and fish plates Tata’s
have given us a provisional quotation of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
one hundred
and fifty five (Rs.156) per ton and
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
two hundred and
thirteen (Rs.213) per ton for rails and fish plates
respectively f.o.r. Tatanagar but if prices at which contracts
have been placed in England are substantially lower we may be
able to negotiate with Tatas some reduction in f.o.r. prices
mentioned. With regard shipments from India.to Bandar Shahpur
these can be arranged either from Bombay, Karachi or Calcutta.
To f.o.r. prices mentioned following additions per ton
(twenty hundredweights) must be made for railway and sea
freight to Bandar Shahpur.
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The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second World War, 1939-45]. Supplying the material was viewed as being easier for the Government of India than HM Government in the United Kingdom.
The file contains correspondence from the Government of India External Affairs Department, and the Government of India Department of Supply.
The papers show that the Government of India were prepared to supply Iran with 102,000 tons of rails with accessories.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (21 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 23; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:22v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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