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Map of Potchefstroom Shewing Fifteen Mile Radius. Prepared and Printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1907.
Scope & Content:
One map in 2 sheets. Enlarged from an original at 1:126,720 filed at Maps 67378.(2.). War Office ledger correctly cites the scale of this enlargement as 1:62,500, although there is a manuscript statement of 1:63,360 on the map face.
Radius Map of Potchefstroom.' Signed by 'G. Long. Sergeant. Scout Sergeant Tenth Royal Hussars.
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One map in 2 sheets. Based on the published map at WOOS/20/4/1 which it updates. Includes editorial comments by Captain E.W. Cox R.E. A small portion on the western margin on the South Sheet was missing on transfer. Date range based on arrival of 10th Royal Hussars in Potchefstroom and dates ...
Map sheets cover Pretoria and the surrounding area to a radius of approximately 15 miles. Sheets portray hydrology, relief by spot heights and approximate contours, woodland, railways, roads and tracks, telegraph and telephone lines, settlements and isolated buildings, fences, farm boundaries and...
'Map of Pretoria Shewing Fifteen Mile Radius'. Signed by 'R.L. McLintock B[reve]t. Major R.E. General Staff S[outh]. A[frica]. Pretoria, September 1907'.
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Includes editorial comments in margin. Sheet used in the compilation of TSGS 2312 dated 1908 and filed at WOOS/20/5/2 and WOOS/20/5/3.
'Map of Pretoria and Surrounding Country. Prepared and printed at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1908.'
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Lithograph. T.S.,G.S. 2312 with manuscript editorial annotations, including the subtitle 'Shewing Main Communications'. Lithograph compiled from the survey by Brevet Major R.L. McClintock R.E. at WOOS/20/5/1. Editorial comments by Captain E.W. Cox R.E. A folio originally attached to this sheet ...
Map of Pretoria and Surrounding Country: Editorial Comments
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This folio was originally attached to the map sheet filed at WOOS/20/5/3 and bears the following note: 'Roads, frequented wagon (main communications are coloured brown) Coloured roads on margins are taken from M.S. field sheets or tracings - Please continue, and show those running to N. & E...
Composite sheet comprising photo-enlargements of field sheets 12a, 12b, 13a, 13b, 16a, and 16b (originals filed at WOOS/20/2/1) and a photo-reproduction of T.S.,G.S. 2312, Pretoria and Surrounding Country (lithograph filed at WOOS/20/5/2). Covers the Commando Nek mountain pass in southern Trans...
'Somaliland. Anglo-Italian Boundary Commission 1929-1930.' Created by 'Lt. Colonel J.H. Stafford, Major Phipps & Lt. Taylor.' - War Office ledger
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Field traverse sheets and photo mosaic covering the British Somaliland - Italian Somaliland boundary and adjacent areas, together with graphic indexes. Creation start date derived from earliest use of G.S.G.S. designation in WOOS/33/1. 'Ground control in Trig. Library. Air Photographs by R.A.F....
Graphic index portraying extent of Boundary Survey (air photos), British field sheets and Italian field sheets, as filed at WOOS/33/2. Information added in manuscript to lithographed base map. Legend affixed to map face. Base map is G.S.G.S. 1781, revised October 1906 as T.S.G.S. 1781, titled '...
