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18 items extracted from CO 273/174. Straits Settlements: Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia)....

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1146

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This record is about the 18 items extracted from CO 273/174. Straits Settlements: Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia).... dating from 1891 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
MR 1/1146
Date
1891
Description

18 items extracted from CO 273/174. Straits Settlements: Malacca (now Melaka, Malaysia). 18 sheets of maps and plans of the water works. (1-2) Plan, on 2 sheets, of the proposed route of a pipeline. Scale: 1 inch to 300 feet [1:3,600]. Inset to item 1: plan showing the position of a service tank at Saint Paul's Hill. (3) Section of the route shown on items 1-2. Horizontal scale: 1 inch to 300 feet [1:3,600]; vertical scale: 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]. (4) Key map showing the site of the water works and the route of a conduit. Scale: 1 inch to 10 chains [1:7,920] Compass indicator. (5) Plan of a watershed. Scale: 1 inch to 4 chains [1:3,168]. (6) Survey of a proposed impounding basin. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 2 chains [1:1,584]. (7) Plan showing the position of an embankment and other head works. Scale: 1 inch to 30 feet [1:360]. Compass indicator. (8-9) 2 sheets of cross-sections through the embankment. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (10-13) 4 sheets of cross-sections through a dam. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (14) Sheet bearing a plan and sections of an overflow well and a discharging culvert. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (15) Sheet bearing a plan, an elevation and sections of an inset tower. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (16) Sheet bearing 4 sections of the proposed site for a service tank at Saint Paul's Hill. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (17) Sheet bearing a plan and 2 sections of the reservoir at Saint Paul's Hill. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (18) Sheet bearing a plan and sections of an automatic valve. Scale: 1 inch to 2 feet [1:24]. All items signed: Major H McCallum, Royal Engineers, Colonial Engineer and Surveyor General, Straits Settlements.

Arrangement

Item 8 follows item 18

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical condition
MS, coloured, on tracing cloth
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Archives and libraries
Army
Asia
Maps and plans
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4560173/

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