File 17/2 I Stores for Agency Steam Launch etc etc — From April 1926
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the acquisition of tools, materials, and supplies for the Bahrain Agency's launch the John Lambert. This includes arrangements made for repairs, maintenance, and modifications to the launch. Most of the file is made up of account statements, invoices, bills, and receipts. It al...
'File 17/6 Books and Periodicals: Correspondence re. Supply and Rules for the supply of articles'
Scope & Content:
The file documents the purchase of books and periodicals (and the management of subscriptions) by the Bahrain Political Agency. To this end it contains receipts and bills, correspondence between the Political Agent (Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, and Charles Geoffrey Prio...
File 17/7 Electric Installation – E. Engine spare parts & Use of current in the Agency Buildings – Telephones.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply of electrical goods, engine parts, and other mechanical devices to the Political Agency, Bahrain. It includes correspondence with electrical and engineering companies, as well as memoranda, invoices, receipts, product brochures, and price lists. Correspondents incl...
File 17/7 III Electric Installation Political Agency Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the supply and maintenance of electrical installations in the Bahrain Political Agency's buildings. Most of the file consists of correspondence between the Assistant Political Agent [Captain George Ashmead Cole; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Captain Michael Gray Dixon] and the Go...
File 17/9 Government Property: Bahrain Toshakhana Articles and Returns
Scope & Content:
The file concerns articles in the Bahrain Toshakhana, the store where items received as gifts from tribal chiefs and princes were deposited. Such items were often later presented as gifts to other rulers. Most of the material comprises correspondence between: the Political Resident in the Persi...
File 17/15 Government property: advances for the purchase and upkeep of cars
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the financial arrangements and rules for purchasing motor cars for the use of Government Officials in the Persian Gulf. Comprising: correspondence regarding the need for motor cars, interest to be repaid on advances, and repayment schedules, between: the Political Agent in the P...
File 17/21 Purchase of a Pick up for the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the purchase in 1941 of a Ford Pickup (1939 model) from Khalil bin Ebrahim Kanoo for the use of the Trucial Coast Agency, along with subsequent repairs and acquisitions of replacement parts; of particular concern is the necessity of fitting desert tires to the pickup. ...
This file concerns the use and maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency's official vehicles. The file largely consists of the Agency's correspondence with various suppliers and distributors of vehicle parts in Bahrain. The file contains specific details of the vehicles used by the Agency du...
This file documents the purchase and supply of two official vehicles for the Bahrain Political Agency: a Humber Super Snipe Saloon and an Austin Sixteen Shooting Brake. Near the beginning of the file the Political Agent states a preference for Humber models as the Agency's official cars (specifi...
File 17/29 DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT ORIGINALLY ORDERED FOR INSTALLATION IN CONSULATES AT BANDAR ABBAS AND BUSHIRE
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This file documents the Bahrain Political Agent's efforts to find a new owner for some electric generating equipment that was ordered from England by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf. In order to avoid having to cancel the order (and pay a large cancellation fee) the Residency requests...
