HYDRO-ELECTRIC

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Printed pamphlet for the '30th. Executive Meeting' of the 'International Commission on Large Dams U.A.R. Committee', containing tables, plans, photographs and a paper relating to the 'Aswan Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme'.

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[Aswan Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme; Gamel Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt; Dipl. Eng. Abdel Moety Abdel Wahab Amer, Assistant Under Secretary of State and President of Hydro-Electric Power Department]
Publication details: 
Cairo, Egypt. February 1963. ['Printed at the General Organisation for Government Printing Offices Cairo | Mohanmmed El-Fateh Omar | Managing Director'.]
£180.00

48pp., landscape 8vo, comprising [ii] + 28pp. of text, followed by 12pp. of tables and plans, and 6 photographs, two of them fold-outs. Stapled, in original card wraps. In fair condition, on aged high-acidity paper. The first page carries a photograph of a smiling Nasser, with the quotations 'Industrialisation is a target leading us to establish a socialist co-operative Community' and 'And Electricity is the backbone of Industry.' Apart from two pages listing 'Contracting firms participating in the scheme', the text comprises an essay by 'Dipl. Eng.

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[Pamphlet] UHL River Hydro-Electric Project. Opening of Main Tunnels: by ... Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey, de Montmorency ... Governor of the Punjab.

Author: 
[Punjab Public Works Dept. Hydro-Electric Branch]
Publication details: 
[1932]
£45.00
Punjab Public Works Dept. Hydro-Electric Branch

12pp., 8vo, in grubby stiff dec. wraps, photographic frontispiece, staples rusted meaning loose leaves, front cover stamped Sir Alexander Gibb Partners Intelligence Dept with date (5 May 1932), no. 0201 also written there. With pencilled annotations (engineering statistics and figures, eg. 146ft. per face per month).

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