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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1775
Title:: File 36/16 III Restrictions on shipment of goods from Bahrain
Scope & Content:: This file contains export licence application forms submitted to the Political Agency in Bahrain by traders resident in the country (various shopkeepers and other sole traders as well as companies and some private individuals). The file also contains a limited amount of related correspondence fr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 8 Jun 1944
Extent:: 1 file (542 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1776
Title:: File 36/16 IX Grant of Export Licenses to Goods Other than of Local Origin
Scope & Content:: This file contains export licence application forms submitted to the Political Agency in Bahrain by individuals resident in the country (various shopkeepers and other sole traders as well as companies and some private individuals) for goods of non-local origin. The application forms contain ba...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 Sep 1945-31 Dec 1945
Extent:: 1 file (396 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1777
Title:: File 36/16 X Grant of Export Licences to Goods Other than of Local Origin
Scope & Content:: This file contains export licence application forms submitted to the Political Agency in Bahrain by individuals resident in the country (various shopkeepers and other sole traders as well as companies and some private individuals) for goods of non-local origin. The application forms contain ba...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 24 Dec 1945-5 Mar 1946
Extent:: 1 file (409 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1780
Title:: File 36/28 Quotas of Motor Spare Parts Fixed for Bahrain and Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence related to the supply of spare car parts in Bahrain and the Trucial Coast. The correspondence in the file is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain; the State Engineers Department of the Government of Bahrain and the Residency Agency in Sharjah. Also...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 23 Dec 1942-27 Sep 1944
Extent:: 1 file (292 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1781
Title:: File 36/37 I Import of Vegetable Ghee and Oil from India
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence related to the importation of vegetable ghee and cooking oil from India to the Gulf, primarily Bahrain. Specifically, the correspondence concerns the impact of a ghee shortage in India and the import quotas that were allocated to merchants operating in the Gulf....
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 20 May 1943-13 Dec 1945
Extent:: 1 file (196 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1782
Title:: File 36/38 Congratulatory Messages re. Allies' Successes in War
Scope & Content:: This file contains letters and telegrams sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain from individuals, primarily members of the region's ruling families, as well as from a number of Bahraini institutions. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agency, the ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Su...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 17 May 1943-24 Sep 1945
Extent:: 1 file (94 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1790
Title:: File 36/45 Applications for Assistance to Export Machinery & Cars from U.S.A. & U.K.
Scope & Content:: This file contains applications for import/export licenses and shipping space that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to importing machinery and car parts from various suppliers in the United Kingdom and the United...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Sep 1943-24 Jan 1945
Extent:: 1 file (285 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1794
Title:: File 36/48 III Imports of Goods Recommended Under Sundries for the United Kingdom
Scope & Content:: This file contains applications for import/export licenses and shipping space that were sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain by a number of merchants active in the country. The applications relate to the importation of a number of different goods including clothes, chemicals and ammunition fr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 3 Aug 1945-5 Nov 1947
Extent:: 1 file (245 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1799
Title:: File 36/60 Minutes of the Commercial Advisory Committee Meetings
Scope & Content:: This file contains copies of the minutes of Bahrain's Commercial Advisory Committee. The Committee was a body composed of its president, Political Agent Major Tom Hickinbotham, a number of prominent local merchants based in Bahrain and G W R Smith, Director of Customs. The Committee is occasiona...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Dec 1943-9 Oct 1945
Extent:: 1 file (61 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1801
Title:: File 36/62 Quota of Tyres and Tubes for Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and several local merchants regarding the importation of tyres and inner tubes into Bahrain and the broader Gulf region. The file also contains correspondence - in Arabic with English translations - between the Political A...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Apr 1944-7 Nov 1946
Extent:: 1 file (172 folios)

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