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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Name General Post Office, 1660-1969 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/242
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, typewritten correspondence, handwritten notes and other papers. These papers relate to the operation of British and Turkish post offices in Turkish Arabia (Iraq), and British and Persian post offices in Persia and the ports and towns of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1911-1914
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/772

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/772
Title:
File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the importance of re-establishing telegraphic communication between India and England via the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia [Iraq] to Mediterranean ports under British control. The papers notably cover the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916-1 Jul 1920
Extent:

1 volume (146 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/51
Title:
PZ 2246/1932 'Communications between London and the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to communications between London and the Middle East. It mainly consists of copies of correspondence sent to the India Office from the Foreign Office. This largely consists of copies of correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Apr 1932-26 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1304
Title:
Ext 732/48 'Supply of transport to Postal Superintendent, Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request by H C Breach, Postal Superintendent, Bahrain, for a car to be purchased for his official and personal use. As well as Breach, the primary correspondents are: General Post Office; Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Commonwealth Relations Office....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1948-31 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1423

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1423
Title:
Pol Ext 8327/49 'D.G. BRUGGER: COMPLAINT OF NON-RECEIPT OF POSTAGE STAMPS FROM KUWAIT.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between D A Bruggers, the Postal Services Department, and the Commonwealth Relations Office, regarding the complaints by Bruggers that sent goods failed delivery to Kuwait. The subsequent correspondence details the change in offices after Indian independence r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1949-18 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1949
Title:
Coll 5/4 ‘Afghanistan: Kabul-India Civil Air Service — Air Convention & the NWF prohibited area’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with proposals for the development of air services to, from, and across Afghanistan. In particular, proposals from the German firm Junkers for an air service from Persia, and Russian proposals for an air bridge across Afghanistan, for the purpose of delivering mail betwee...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Jul 1930-13 Apr 1932
Extent:
1 volume (452 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4101
Title:
Coll 35/2 'Persia and Persian Gulf: steamer arrangements in the Persian Gulf; including arrangements for the carriage and delivery of consular and diplomatic mails to posts in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the dispatch of consular and diplomatic mails by steamer and air mail service to and from Persian Gulf. The file covers: Transmission of sealed bags, containing official correspondence, to consular officers in Persia [Iran] Negotiations with Persian Government for the transmis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1930-13 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (579 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4109
Title:
Coll 35/6 'Arabia: Hejaz-Nejd; wireless stations; postal and telegraph communications with the outside world'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal communications in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd and, later, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The file covers: Desire of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to establish wireless stations in Hejaz and Nejd, 1926-29 Proposed wireless communicati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1925-17 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (514 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4115A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4115A
Title:
Coll 35/12(2) 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office and telephones; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme; Cable and Wireless Agreement with Shaikh of Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office and mail delivery in Kuwait. The file contains: Commercial agreement between ruler of Kuwait and Cable and Wireless Limited, 1941 Construction of wireless station at Kuwait, administered by Cable and Wireless Limited, 1941 Interruption of postal s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1941-15 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (360 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4116
Title:
Coll 35/13 'Persian Gulf: public wireless telegraph station at Sharjah'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file contains agreements with the ruler of Sharjah for the establishment of an air station by Imperial Airways, and correspondence related to the opening of a wireless telegraph station at Sharjah. The file is ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1933-26 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)