SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY April 1935 Booklet of Business Organization China SCARCE For Sale

Publisher: The SouthManchuria Railway Company,Dairen, Manchuria

Publication Date: 1935

Edition: First Edition

First Edition booklet of the Organization during the early1930\'s of the extensive range of business operations under control of The SouthManchuria Railway Company in Japanese-held Manchuria from its incorporation in1906. Such is akin to a corporate /governmental promotional and marketingpublication (advertorial) of this business and operational conglomerate. Descriptiveheadingsfor the information sections are as follows:

• Historical Background ~ Organization ~ Railway Undertakings ~ Growth of Traffic ~ Harbor Improvements ~ Warehousing ~ Railway Workshops ~ Hotels

• Administration of Manchoukuo State Railways ~ North Manchuria Railways ~ Administration of North Chosen Railways ~ Construction Activities ~ Fushun and Yentai Collieries ~ Shale Oil Distillation ~ Administration of the Railway Zone.

• Town Construction ~ Schools and Libraries ~ Hospitals and Health Service ~ Agricultural Experimental Stations ~ Central Laboratory ~ Geological Institute ~ Natural Resources Museum ~ Industrial and Commercial Promotions.

• S. M. R. Finance ~ Capital Outlay ~ Receipts and Expenditures ~ Employee Benefit Institutions.

\"Thus sets forth its far-flung activities and interests areinseparably tied up with the industrial, commercial, social, intellectual, andgeneral economic life of the country, and the epic story of its growth is to alarge extent the story of the phenomenal development and progress of Manchuriaduring the past twenty-eight years\".

• This booklet of 54 pages plus cover.
• Size of approximately 6 inches by 9 inches.
• Imposing period photograph on front cover of a South Manchuria Railway Steamliner Locomotive.
• Full-page map of Manchoukuo, 55 B&W photographs, distance table, operational facts and figures.
• Considering a publication age of Eighty-eight Years, this copy ofSOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY 1935 is excellently preserved withintact wire-stitched binding in the original light card pictorialwrappers.
• Condition is \"Used\". Pleasereview attached photos.Inquiries welcomed.
• Minor age toning No wear No tears No markings No creases No smudges

As a historical reference source about China,Manchuria,Manchoukuo, along with Japan expansionism, this unique and rare SOUTH MANCHURIARAILWAY 1935 booklet would be an exceptional additionforacademia.

SCARCE. Seller is aware of only one other copy of this publication being available for acquisition, anywhere.