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Singapore. A set of 13 maps and sections of a foul drainage system planned to be...

Catalogue reference: MR 1/1256/23-35

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MR 1/1256/23-35

Date

1928-1930

Description

Singapore. A set of 13 maps and sections of a foul drainage system planned to be constructed at Tanglin Barracks, 1930-1931.

(23) Dyeline print of a map of the whole site. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to 4 chains [1:3,168]. Compass indicator. MS additions, coloured, showing the drainage system.

(24-27) 4 sheets of sections; MS, coloured, on squared paper. Scale: (24) 1 inch to 5 feet [1:60]; (25-27) 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120].

(28-34) '... Skeleton Record Plan': 7 sheets from a detailed, printed map on 11 sheets; (35) sheet of plans of the first floors of individual buildings. MS reference tables on item (28). Scale: 1:500. Compass indicators to items (28-34). [Printed by] Ordnance Survey, 1928; (signed): Lieutenant Colonel W Hyde Kelly, Commanding Royal Engineer, 4 February 1928. A note to each sheet states: 'For official use only'. Coloured MS additions to each sheet show the drainage system. Small sheets of paper marking corrections to the map are affixed to the faces of items (29-32).

All items signed by Lieutenant Colonel Moore, Commanding Royal Engineer, 23 January 1930.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)

Language

English

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Open Document, Open Description

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