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** [http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-09-633-4 The ropeway transit system, Landi Kotal, 1919] NAM. 1963-09-633-4
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**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-09-633-12 The ropeway transit system at Landi Kotal, c 1919] Photograph by Randolph Bezzant Holmes. NAM. 1963-09-633-12  
**[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1963-09-633-12 The ropeway transit system at Landi Kotal, c 1919] Photograph by Randolph Bezzant Holmes. NAM. 1963-09-633-12  
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Revision as of 21:39, 17 January 2014

Khyber Ropeway Company 1919 to c 1925

In 1925 the following was written:

"Ropeway to be Dismantled
A large part of the Khyber ropeway, which , since its erection in 1919 has handled a maximum of 200 tons of goods per day, is to be dismantled owing to difficulties with the Afghans. The total length of the ropeway is 19 miles".[1]

The ropeway system appears to have been run by the Khyber Ropeway Company, part of the Royal Army Service Corps

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in a House of Lords debate 31 March 1921 said

"Two years ago I was delighted to find that the Government of India carried out a recommendation which I made that there should be a wire ropeway in the Khyber Pass. This has been completed, and has lately taken over twenty tons of stores a day to the summit "[2]

The King’s College London , Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives website has a catalogue reference "Douglas-Scott-Montagu 7/42 1918 Apr 10 Memoranda, Articles and Reports: Report by Montagu and Capt S Limby on the use of wire ropeways on the North West Frontier and hill stations. Ref S80 QMG. Printed 4 pp and map of proposed road and ropeway Makeland District (2 copies)"

The King’s College London , Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives website has a catalogue reference " Liddell: 15/3/167 1910-1936 :Journal articles relating to British defence in India, including …..'The Khyber Ropeway Company' by Lt Col Richard Parry Crawley in Royal Army Service Corps Quarterly [1931]". This journal appears to be Volume 1 New Series which is also available at the Imperial War Museum.

Photographs and postcards

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