Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India with the Approval of the Right Hon'ble The Secretary of State for India, to Enquire into Questions Connected with the Organisation and Administration of the Railway and River Transport in Mesopotamia. Maps
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The volume is Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission Appointed by the Government of India with the Approval of the Right Hon'ble The Secretary of State for India, to Enquire into Questions Connected with the Organisation and Administration of the Railway and River Transport ...
Index Plan Showing Mesopotamian Railways (Preliminary Plan). 20th Feb 1918
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Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Preliminary plan of Mesopotamian Railways showing various lines both built and under construction (including standard, metre, narrow and decauville gauge) with a key to track sizes inserted at the bottom left-hand corner. Signed; ‘Guy Lubbock Br...
‘Railway Map of Basra and Magil Showing Tentative Proposals for Port Development’
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Imprint: Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Office, Calcutta. Reproduced by Bashrah Survey Party I.E.F.”D” No. 81 Dated 12.6.17. Signature of Acting Director of Railways in the bottom right-hand corner. Distinctive Features: Plan of Basra showing railway infrastructure including existi...
History of the supply of 'river craft' to Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' for general transport purposes from the commencement of operations up to June 1916. Simla: QMG's Branch, Army HQ India, 1916.
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Tables; Secret, with Supplement...from June to 17th September, [37p]
Summary of correspondence relative to the administration of the Port of Basrah and measures for the control of the shipping traffic in Mesopotamia.
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This secret summary was compiled by the Army Department, War Section Case and printed in Simla in September 1919. It contains letters and telegrams sent from 11 December 1915 to 14 August 1916 between the officers of the Government of India and the Director-General of Port Administration and Riv...
Correspondence relating to details of shipping and congestion of storeships at Basrah for the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, published by the Quarter Master General, Simlah, in 1916. The information is divided into two sections: shipping and congestion of storeships at Basrah and is annotated ...
