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032-000256868 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Roads

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/55, f 42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/55, f 42
Title:
‘MAP OF BASRA AND MAGIL’
Scope & Content:
The map shows the state of the roads in and around Basra City. Different categories of roads are highlighted in different colours as follows: concrete roads (solid red line), metalled roads (red dashes), proposed metalled roads (small red dashes), kutcha roads (solid green line), proposed kutcha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1919
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/L/MIL/7/16875

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/16875
Title:
Collection 403/56 ‘Situation in Persia 1912. Telegraphic Correspondence.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the situation in Persia [Iran] in 1912. The conditions on the Bushire [Bushehr] and Ispahan [Isfahan] roads are discussed in relation to robberies and attacks. An attack on the Shiraz Consul, Mr Smart, is discussed and his account of the attack is includ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 December 1911-29 January 1914
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/16
Title:
‘Military Report on ’Arabistan (Area No. 13).’
Scope & Content:
Confidential military report on Arabistan [Khūzestān] compiled by Air Headquarters, Iraq, and printed by the Government of India Press, 1924. The report contains nine chapters (numbered I-IX) and seven appendices (A-G) as follows: chapter I – history (general, ancient, modern, political attitud...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1924
Extent:

1 volume (179 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/13
Title:
‘M.T. Routes in Persia. Volume 1 – Main Routes. 1942’
Scope & Content:
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 (foli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:

1 volume (245 folios)

5. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 74
Title:
‘Duzdap to Meshed Motor Road. (As Organised as a Line of Communication in 1919-20.)’
Scope & Content:
Map of roads between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashad]. The map and accompanying key indicate: posts were troops were stationed; halting stages for convoys; roads metalled in 1920; roads unmetalled in 1920 but since metalled (as of 1930); roads still unmetalled (as of February 1930); camel tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/9
Title:
‘Military report on south-west Persia, including the provinces of Khúzistán (Arabistan), Luristán and part of Fars.’
Scope & Content:
Report marked strictly confidential, prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General’s Department in India, by the Assistant Quarter Master General, Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Sever Bell, Royal Engineers. The volume was published by the Government Central Branch P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1885
Extent:

1 volume (231 folios)

7. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/14
Title:
Duzdap to Meshed via Shusp, Birjand, Kain, Jumin and Turbat-i-Haidari
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a publication concerning the route between Duzdap [Zāhedān] and Meshed [Mashhad] via Shusp [Shūsef], Birjand, Kain, Jumin, and Turbat-i-Haidari [Torbat-e Ḩeydarīyeh]. Produced by the General Staff, India, and published in Simla by the Government Monotype Press, 1919. Marked ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

8. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 73

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/7, f 73
Title:
‘Mechanical Transport Chart. Passable normally to M.T. (i.e. up to 3 Ton Trucks in winter and 5 Ton Trucks in summer’
Scope & Content:
The map, which bears an additional title: ‘Condition of the Duzdap-Meshed Road February 1930’, indicates the road between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashad] and its suitability for motor transport (‘M.T.’) The key indicates the condition of the roads on the route: good; normally good, requiring...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1930
Extent:
1 map