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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 Language Arabic Subject Second World War (1939-1945)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3806A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3806A
Title:
Coll 30/87(2) Part I 'Qatar: Oil Concession.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the signing of the agreement between the British Government, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) (later the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company), and the Shaikh of Qatar, Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī] to award the company an exclusive oil concession in Qatar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-8 Nov 1944
Extent:

4 volumes (639 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3824

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3824
Title:
Coll 30/104(2) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Operations of the Koweit Oil Company. (Provision of Motor Vehicles & Spares for Sheik of Koweit)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of the Kuwait Oil Company, from its initial explorations and discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Kuwait, to the suspension of the Company's operations during the Second World War (1939-45), and the resumption of its operations after the war. The main co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1935-20 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (373 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3889

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3889
Title:
Coll 30/154 'War Emergency Legislation in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the formulation of war emergency legislation for the Persian Gulf in the run-up to, and during, the Second World War. According to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle) in 1937, certain factors peculiar to the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1937-12 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (639 folios)