Abstract
THE series of articles dealing with various export markets of the world appearing in the Electrician includes one dealing with electrical development in Iraq (Electrician, December 6). For the last twenty years this has been mainly concerned with the provision of small generating plants designed to supply power and light to firms and for highways. Until seven years ago there was no sign of any intensive activity, but from 1933, development has taken place in Bagdad, Basra and Mosul. For all intents and purposes, Bagdad is the trading centre of the country, but since the extension of the Turco-Syria railways to the Iraqi frontier at Tel-Kotchek, Mosul is tending to develop an independent commercial life of its own. Incidentally, this extension of the railway, in late 1936, is playing a most useful part in the development of a hitherto minor market. At the moment, however, this line is not completed, so that it is not yet necessary for travelling agents to visit Mosul, nor is it necessary to appoint separate agents for this district. It is possible, none the less, that both these steps will have to be taken as soon as the railway is in full operation.
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Electrical Development in Iraq. Nature 147, 204 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147204a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147204a0