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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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1634
Title:: File 18/5 Agency Tennis Courts
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the repair and maintenance of the Political Agency's tennis court. The early correspondence is mostly concerned with replacing the surface of the existing court and requests for advice from the En-Tout-Cas Company regarding suitable material and mainte...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Jan 1933-Dec 1950
Extent:: 1 file (213 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1635
Title:: File 18/6 Special repairs to the Agency buildings
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding repairs to the Agency Building in Bahrain. Most of the work discussed is included in a list of requirements for original works, alterations and additions produced each year by the Political Agent, Bahrain and sent to the Assistant Engineer, Independent ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Jan 1933-19 Jun 1936
Extent:: 1 file (320 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1638
Title:: 'File 18/6 IV Agency Buildings. Special Repairs. Vols I to III.’
Scope & Content:: The file consists of papers, mostly correspondence, relating to works to be carried out to the Political Agency in Bahrain. It includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain, and the Executive Engineer, Independent Persian Gulf Sub-Division, regarding requirements of original work...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 29 Dec 1940-20 Jul 1948
Extent:: 1 file (296 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1639
Title:: File 18/8 ‘Buildings:- Accommodation and furniture for A.P.A. (A.PA’s Furniture Fund) Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the residence of the Assistant Political Agent, Bahrain. It includes correspondence concerning the following: The rental of the house The connection of the telephone system in the house The laying of a water pipe from the artesian well...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 15 Apr 1934-1 Nov 1938
Extent:: 1 file (262 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1643
Title:: File 18/12 'Accommodation for the Staff of the Hon'ble the Political Resident when on Tour at Bahrain'
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the rental of residential properties in Bahrain for the use of the staff of the Political Resident while on tour in the country. The correspondence is between officials at the Political Residency in Bushire, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Manama ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Sep 1936-22 Jun 1949
Extent:: 1 file (141 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1644
Title:: ‘File 18/13 I. Buildings: Accommodation for Agency Clerical Staff’
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to accommodation for Bahrain Political Agency clerical staff, including correspondence regarding the flat formerly used by the Public Relations Offices. The file includes three documents in Arabic, including correspondence between the R...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 10 Aug 1938-19 Sep 1950
Extent:: 1 file (70 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1650
Title:: File 19/1 II Political Agents Bahrain touring
Scope & Content:: The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for visits of the Political Agent and the Assistant Political Agent at Bahrain to Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah; and programmes of tours of the Trucial Coast in 1937 and 1938, staying at the Rest House in Sh...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 18 Jan 1935-15 Jun 1938
Extent:: 1 file (276 folios)

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