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1. IOR/L/PS/12/1990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1990
Title:
Coll 5/36 ‘Persian Gulf Air Route: Air facilities at Yas Island and at Abu Dhabi’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning negotiations with Shaikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi, for air facilities at Yas Island [Sir Bani Yas] and Abu Dhabi. The required air facilities include emergency landing grounds, moorings for flying boats, and petrol storage faci...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1934-8 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (116 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/187
Title:
‘26 File 626 Qatar and Bahrain affairs: action of Shaikh Jasim ibn Muhammad Al Thani against al-`Udaid’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Ruler of Katr [Qatar], Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī, and British officials, concerning relations between Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad and a variety of parties on the Arab coast, including Indian subjects in Qatar, the Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, and th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 May 1881-2 Sep 1886
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/189
Title:
33 File 665 Hostilities between Shaikh Zaid and Shaikh Jasim
Scope & Content:
The volume contains memos, reports and correspondence exchanged between the British officials in the Persian Gulf, the Political Resident and his Agents at Sharjah and Bahrein [Bahrain], the Ruler of Katr [Qatar], Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī, and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Shaikh Zayid bin K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Mar 1888-9 Jun 1890
Extent:
3 volumes (404 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/239-294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/239-294
Title:
File 14: Arab Coast and Islands
Scope & Content:
This sub-sub series contains correspondence from 1871 to 1948 on a range of matters relating to the Trucial Coast and nearby islands including Abu Musa, Tunb [Tumb] and Sir Abu Nu'air. Topics in the correspondence discussed include: British relations with the Trucial States of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1871-1948
Extent:
56 volumes

5. IOR/R/15/1/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/671
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-I B.34. OIL TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (Maurice Clausen, John Charles Walton) and Edward Henry Ommaney Elkington, General Manager of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 May 1935-4 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/672

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/672
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-II B-35 OIL TRUCIAL COAST & OMAN'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (John Charles Walton); the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (L Lefroy, Edward Henry Ommaney Elkington, Hajji ‘Abdullah Wil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
10 Jul 1934-29 Feb 1936
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/673

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/673
Title:
CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-III B.36. TRUCIAL COAST.
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the intention of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) to negotiate extensions on the options that the D’Arcy Exploration Company had acquired with the rulers of Abu Dhabi (Shaikh Shakhbūt bin Sulṭān bin Zāyid Āl Nahyān), Ajman (Rāshid Bin Ḥumaid Al-Nu`aimī), Dibai [Dubai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
21 Jan 1936-30 Jun 1936
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/674

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/674
Title:
'Confidential 86/7-IV B.40. Petroleum Concessions Limited - Trucial Coast.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a record of negotiations between Major Frank Holmes and Ashraf Halim [Ashraf Halīm] on behalf of Petroleum Concessions Limited, and the Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktum [Saʻīd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm], Shaikh of Dibai [Dubai], over a concession agreement for Dibai, which resulted in a c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1936-9 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 volume (257 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/675
Title:
'Confidential 86/7-v B.41 PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LTD., TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (Maurice Clauson), the Foreign Office (John Cecil Sterndale Bennett), the Colonial Office (Owen Gwyn Revell Williams), representatives of Petroleum ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
23 Oct 1936-29 May 1937
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/679

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/679
Title:
'Confidential 86/7 - ix B.52. P.C.L. TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence in English and Arabic between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Hugh Weightman), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, John Baron Howes), the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Khan Sahib Saiyid ‘Abd al-Razzaq), the India O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1938-13 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 volume (206 folios)