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1. IOR/R/15/2/1341-1364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1341-1364
Title:
File 10: Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
The Trade and Commerce files of the Political Agency Bahrain cover the following subjects: monthly trade statistics, 1938-44; trade reports and related papers for years ending 1925-42; statistics of imports and exports and shipping figures for years ending 1943-49 inclusive; and a variety of ad h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1926-1950
Extent:
24 files and volumes (3,935 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1356

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1356
Title:
File 10/20 Enquiries re: cement
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to imports of cement into Bahrain. The file includes enquiries from The Cement Marketing Company Ltd, London, about the amount of cement imported into Bahrain for each of the years 1929-1933, to which the Agency provided statistics in response. The enquiries were then disc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1931-17 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1362

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1362
Title:
File 10/26 Financial status of commercial firms and merchants
Scope & Content:
Enquiries, reports and miscellaneous information about trading companies and merchants in Bahrain. The file describes the financial position and reputation of many individual companies and merchants and assesses their reliability as importers and agents. The term 'morality' is used as a synonym ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1936-16 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (262 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1345

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1345
Title:
File 10/4 II Trade Reports
Scope & Content:
Trade Reports of the Bahrain Islands for the financial years ended 31 March 1933 to 31 March 1936 inclusive, with associated correspondence. The reports list imports from twenty-nine countries (notably India, Iraq, Persia, England [the United Kingdom], Japan, Germany, Africa, Belgium and the Unit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1933-27 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1346

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1346
Title:
File 10/4 III Trade Report Bahrain Islands
Scope & Content:
Trade reports and related material. The papers include Department of Overseas Trade Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in the Persian Gulf, December 1936, by Frank H Todd, Vice-Consul, Bushire (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1937); trade reports of the Bahrain Islands for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1936-3 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1355
Title:
File 10/19 Prohibition of Certain Japanese Goods into Bahrain. Proposal re.
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to a proposal from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, on advice from the State Engineer, to ban the import from Japan of badly insulated wiring material, which had caused shocks and fires. The proposal was accepted by the Political Agent, Bahrain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1934-22 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1353
Title:
File 10/16 Legislation for preventing the import and sale in Bahrain of foreign imitations of British designs
Scope & Content:
The file relates to foreign imitations of British textile designs. The file centres on information provided by the firm of J E Khedouri, import, export and commission agent, relating to the imitation of fabrics made in Manchester, United Kingdom. J E Khedouri (the proprietor) alleges in a letter ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1940-26 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1351

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1351
Title:
File 10/7 III Trade and Commerce. Registration of trademarks and protection of inventions in the Bahrain Island
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to trade marks (there was no registration of trade marks in Bahrain at this period, but foreign trade mark rights applied). The file includes examples of flower basket match labels imported from Czechoslovakia by Abdul Rahman Noor Alfarsi, Bahrain, that were similar to flo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1945-1 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (104 folios)