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IOR/L/PS/10/451/2
- Record Id:
- 041-000545409
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000287.0x00006a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054818544.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/451/2
- Title:
- File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’
- Scope & Content:
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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 and the Foreign Office
- The Persian Transport Company Limited and the Foreign Office
- HM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz, and HM Minister to Persia
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545407
041-000545409 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/451 : File 1187/1914 Pt 2-3 'Persia. Bakhtiari Road'
IOR/L/PS/10/451/2 : File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/10/451/2, f 29 : ‘Sketch Map showing proposed New Alignment of road from Shushtar to Isfahan’
IOR/L/PS/10/451/2, f 46 : Map of South-West Persia
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/451/2 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0453]/040-000545407[0002]/041-000545409
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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1 item (123 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100054818544.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1914
- End Date:
- 1919
- Date Range:
- 8 Sep 1914-13 Mar 1919
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- P 1187/1914 Pt 3
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)