Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 1

Name: Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 1
ISBN: 9781351112550

doi:10.4324/9781351112550

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Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 1

ABSTRACT

This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.

Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 1

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |4 pages

Proposals

chapter |8 pages

Part 2, Nos 1 and 2. Messrs Fitzgerald and Mercer to Colonial Office (23 June 1879) and Colonial Office to Messrs Fitzgerald and Mercer (11 July 1879); held at the National Archives, CO 879/38/451.

chapter |28 pages

Reports on Inspections Made to Ascertain the Best Lines of Possible Railway Extension in the Colony. No. 1, Possible Extensions of the Western and Midland Systems (Cape Town: Department of Crown Lands and Public Works, 1879).

chapter 3|54 pages

Correspondence having Reference to Construction of Railways in Territory of Bechuanaland (Cape Town: Government Printer, 1889).

chapter 4|6 pages

Railway Extension through British Bechuanaland (Cape Town: Government Printer, 1890).

chapter 5|8 pages

E. L. Bentley, Handbook to the Uganda Question and Proposed East Africa Railway (London: Chapman & Hall, 1892).

chapter 6|18 pages

The Railway Extension from Charlestown to Johannesburg. Copy of Agreements dated 3rd and 12th February and 25th April, 1894 between the Governments of the Colony of Natal and the South African Republic (Durban: T. L. Cullingworth, 1894).

chapter 7|30 pages

Memorandum on the Question of the Delagoa Bay Railway (printed for the use of the Colonial Office, 1896); held at the National Archives, CO 879/56/2.

chapter 8|14 pages

F. Cardew, Railway Schemes for the Colony of Sierra Leone. An Address before the African Trade Section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 2 August 1895 (Liverpool: Chamber of Commerce, 1895).

chapter 9|40 pages

The Beira Railway. Report of Proceedings of the Various Meetings held in Salisbury, Rhodesia, on the above Question (London: printed on behalf of the Beira Railway Extension Committee, Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1895).

chapter |2 pages

Wassau (Gold Coast) Mining Coompany, Limited, to Colonial Office (19 August 1897); held at the National Archives, CO 879/49/2, No. 185a.

chapter |10 pages

C. S. Betton, ‘Prospective Railway Development in British Equatorial Africa’, Journal of the Society of Arts (4 July 1902), pp. 684–90.

chapter 12|12 pages

Informal Conference with Mr. F. Bedford Glasier, on the Subject of the Lagos Railway, held at the Exchange Station Hotel, on Monday, April 27th, 1903, African Trade Section of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce (Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co. printers, 1903).

chapter 13|18 pages

The Right Railway System and the Best Outlets for Nigeria (London: Marsden & Co. Ltd, 1906).

chapter 14|30 pages

Report on Transport Policy to Develop the Northern Provinces of Northern Nigeria (printed for the use of the Colonial Office, 1912); held at the National Archives, CO 879/110/2.

chapter 15|24 pages

Transport in Africa. East African Commission’s Recommendations, British Cotton Growing Association Publications Series, 90 (Manchester: British Cotton Growing Association, 1925).

chapter |18 pages

E. Grigg, Memorandum on Railway Development (Nairobi:Government Printer, 1926).