Archive Reference (shelfmark): IOR/R / Language: Arabic - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1607
Title:: 'File 17/6 Books and Periodicals: Correspondence re. Supply and Rules for the supply of articles'
Scope & Content:: The file documents the purchase of books and periodicals (and the management of subscriptions) by the Bahrain Political Agency. To this end it contains receipts and bills, correspondence between the Political Agent (Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, and Charles Geoffrey Prio...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Jun 1926-6 Dec 1930
Extent:: 1 file (309 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1608
Title:: File 17/7 Electric Installation – E. Engine spare parts & Use of current in the Agency Buildings – Telephones.
Scope & Content:: This file concerns the supply of electrical goods, engine parts, and other mechanical devices to the Political Agency, Bahrain. It includes correspondence with electrical and engineering companies, as well as memoranda, invoices, receipts, product brochures, and price lists. Correspondents incl...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 15 Nov 1926-15 Aug 1933
Extent:: 1 file (182 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1609
Title:: File 17/7 III Electric Installation Political Agency Bahrain
Scope & Content:: This file concerns the supply and maintenance of electrical installations in the Bahrain Political Agency's buildings. Most of the file consists of correspondence between the Assistant Political Agent [Captain George Ashmead Cole; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Captain Michael Gray Dixon] and the Go...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1934-2 Jul 1944
Extent:: 1 file (192 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1611
Title:: File 17/9 Government Property: Bahrain Toshakhana Articles and Returns
Scope & Content:: The file concerns articles in the Bahrain Toshakhana, the store where items received as gifts from tribal chiefs and princes were deposited. Such items were often later presented as gifts to other rulers. Most of the material comprises correspondence between: the Political Resident in the Persi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 22 Jan 1927-30 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (249 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1617
Title:: File 17/15 Government property: advances for the purchase and upkeep of cars
Scope & Content:: Papers regarding the financial arrangements and rules for purchasing motor cars for the use of Government Officials in the Persian Gulf. Comprising: correspondence regarding the need for motor cars, interest to be repaid on advances, and repayment schedules, between: the Political Agent in the P...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1933-25 Mar 1942
Extent:: 1 file (305 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1624
Title:: File 17/21 Purchase of a Pick up for the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: The file is concerned with the purchase in 1941 of a Ford Pickup (1939 model) from Khalil bin Ebrahim Kanoo for the use of the Trucial Coast Agency, along with subsequent repairs and acquisitions of replacement parts; of particular concern is the necessity of fitting desert tires to the pickup. ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 4 Sep 1941-4 May 1948
Extent:: 1 file (125 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1628
Title:: File 17/27 AGENCY TRANSPORT
Scope & Content:: This file concerns the use and maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency's official vehicles. The file largely consists of the Agency's correspondence with various suppliers and distributors of vehicle parts in Bahrain. The file contains specific details of the vehicles used by the Agency du...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Apr 1946-24 Oct 1950
Extent:: 1 file (237 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1629
Title:: File 17/28 Government Motor Vehicles for Agency
Scope & Content:: This file documents the purchase and supply of two official vehicles for the Bahrain Political Agency: a Humber Super Snipe Saloon and an Austin Sixteen Shooting Brake. Near the beginning of the file the Political Agent states a preference for Humber models as the Agency's official cars (specifi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1946-8 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (126 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1630
Title:: File 17/29 DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN ELECTRIC GENERATING EQUIPMENT ORIGINALLY ORDERED FOR INSTALLATION IN CONSULATES AT BANDAR ABBAS AND BUSHIRE
Scope & Content:: This file documents the Bahrain Political Agent's efforts to find a new owner for some electric generating equipment that was ordered from England by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf. In order to avoid having to cancel the order (and pay a large cancellation fee) the Residency requests...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Jun 1947-20 Jul 1947
Extent:: 1 file (13 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1631
Title:: File 18/1 II Repairs to Buildings Ordinary Repairs
Scope & Content:: The file relates to repairs needed to, or being carried out on, various rooms of the Bahrain Agency building, and other works including the placement of a new artesian well and repairs to a wall in the Agency garden. The file contains requests from the Political Agent, Bahrain, to British, India...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 4 Mar 1933-5 Apr 1948
Extent:: 1 file (275 folios)

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