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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Air travel

1. IOR/L/PS/12/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/110
Title:
PZ 3191/34 'Persian Gulf Viceroy's passage by Imperial Airways from Karachi to UK'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the ceremonial visits made by the Viceroy of India to Bahrain, Kuwait and Sharjah in the summer of 1934, where he landed by aeroplane, on route from Karachi to England by Imperial Airways Ltd, for a period of home leave. The file contains reports by t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1934-15 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/880
Title:
Ext 6421/43 'Air passengers visas for landing in any Arab state'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to visa requirements for air passengers transiting through Arab states, which include the principalities of the Persian Gulf. The majority of the papers are exchanges detailing the visa requirements of passengers travelling between south, east, and southeast Asi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1943-18 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (27 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1105
Title:
Ext 6740/45 'Persia - Persian Gulf. Passages for officials & wives.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence (letters, draft letters, copies of letters, and notes) mainly relating to air passages to Bahrain for British officials and the wives of officials. It includes correspondence regarding air passages to Bahrain for the following individuals: G W R Smith, Director ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1945-23 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1204
Title:
Ext 1529/47 'Air travel to Persian Gulf by officers on the Political Resident's staff'
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters and paperwork relating to the arrangement of air passage from London to the Persian Gulf by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf during 1947. The tickets were booked on British Overseas Airlines Corporation, and were done so for a variety of British Agency Staff, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1947-5 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1216
Title:
Ext 2250/47 'Col Hay, Political Resident, Persian Gulf: travelling allowances 1947; arrangements for return passages to Persian Gulf for Col Hay and family'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers relating to expenses incurred by Col Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and his family during 1947. The papers consist mainly of requests for compensation for travel expenses with the Foreign Office in London, and some papers relating to travel bookings ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1947-4 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3870

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3870
Title:
Coll 30/136 'Film productions: Facilities for film-producing units.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the making of a documentary film by the Strand Film Company, London, concerning the Imperial Airways route between the United Kingdom and Australia, which involved filming at Sharjah. The papers include: telegrams dated 1936 giving permission for the filming from the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1936-13 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B414
Title:
Air Communication in the Persian Gulf. (Communicated by the Air Ministry)
Scope & Content:
Memorandum communicated by the Air Ministry on 23 August 1928 concerning air communication in the Persian Gulf. Covering: an introduction to the development of the Persian and Arabian air routes; flights on the air route along the Persian shore from 1918 onwards; the association of the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1928
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/590
Title:
‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1933-7 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/591
Title:
‘Visit of Her Excellency Lady Willingdon’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns visits made by Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon (referred to as Lady Willingdon), wife of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to Bahrain and Sharjah on stopovers in June 1933. The file contains correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 May 1933-12 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/724
Title:
‘File 28/32 I Recruitment in Persian Gulf states’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to investigations into the prospect of recruiting large numbers of labourers from the Persian Gulf, for non-combatant military work in Basra, and later on, civilian (oil refinery) labour at Abadan. The principal correspondents ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1942-28 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)