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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language Arabic Name Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited, shipping agents, 1937-2010

1. IOR/R/15/2/377

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/377
Title:
File 9/33 Complaints made against Gray Mackenzie's Dubai Agent
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning complaints made by some merchants from Dubai that Gray Mackenzie & Co's Agent in Dubai has been bribing passengers travelling by boat. There are letters from Gray Mackenzie & Co's representa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1947-14 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/444
Title:
File 10/16 (10/21) BAPCO's proposal to act as shipping agents: complaints against Gray Mackenzie & Co
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident at Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on BAPCO's application to act as Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1942-9 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/542
Title:
File 14/9 Employment of Italians in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the employment of Italians in Bahrain. The file covers two separate cases. The first case concerns the employment of painter and draughtsman, Rino Gardeschi (sometimes spelled Gardeski), in the decoration of the Roman Catholic Church in Manama and mo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1948-21 Jul 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1271
Title:
File 6/53 Bahrain State Officials (Complaints from and against)
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters of complaint about matters connected to the Bahrain Government and its services, as well as correspondence between representatives of the government (usually Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the government, and Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier, Director of Cust...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:
1 Jul 1933-23 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (245 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1370

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1370
Title:
‘File 12/3 Sickness and Death of Crew on ships – Shipping Articles deposit of / (Bahrain crew for Caltex II)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to incidents of sickness, injury and death on board ships, subsequently reported to the Political Agency upon the arrival of the vessel concerned at Bahrain. The file’s principal correspondents include shipping agents and operators base...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1926-23 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1428

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1428
Title:
File 14/13 Miscellaneous postal correspondence regarding despatch of foreign mails, telegrams etc
Scope & Content:
The first part of the file contains correspondence, notices and telegrams regarding various subjects: arrangements for the dispatch of mail and for the despatch of parcels and gifts to the United Kingdom during 1944 and 1945; restrictions on dispatch of Christmas cards and parcels for prisoners ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1944-30 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1535
Title:
‘File 16/32 VII Correspondence with the Bushire Residency’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence exchanged between British offices in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the British Residency and Consulate-General in Bushire, and the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/32 VI Routine correspondence with Bushire Residency’ (I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1945-20 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (187 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1536

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1536
Title:
‘File 16/32-A Purchases on behalf of Bushire Residency’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers, exchanged between staff at the Political Agency in Bahrain and others, including the British Residency and Consulate in Bushire and the Government of Bahrain, relating to the order or exchange of goods from suppliers, merchants and colleagues, with shipping arran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1945-21 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (170 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1544

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1544
Title:
‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to efforts, undertaken by representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit (MEALU), to control desert locusts (first reported in western India in August 1942 (f 3)) along the Arab coast between Bahrain and Oman. The principal correspondents in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1942-18 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (448 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1554
Title:
‘File 16/44 Holidays observed by the Bahrain Government and other local offices. and their working hours and other changes in their personnel’
Scope & Content:
Notices and memoranda from various institutions and commercial concerns in Bahrain, informing the Political Agency of office closures (in observance of Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Hindu festivals, bank holidays, and other occasions such as the King’s birthday) or changes to working hours. Not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1934-28 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (412 folios)