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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Language English Subject Persian Gulf States (emergency) Order in Council (1939)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3889

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3889
Title:
Coll 30/154 'War Emergency Legislation in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the formulation of war emergency legislation for the Persian Gulf in the run-up to, and during, the Second World War. According to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle) in 1937, certain factors peculiar to the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1937-12 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (639 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/4492

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4492
Title:
Coll 44/16 ‘Persian Gulf. Introduction of an export licensing system. Regulation made under Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939).’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the introduction of an export licensing system for Arab countries in the Persian Gulf during the Second World War. The papers notably cover the following: The Bahrain (also written in the file as Bahrein) Petroleum Compa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1941-29 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/296

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/296
Title:
File 18/52 I (C 99) The Foreign Jurisdiction (Admiralty) Order in Council, 1910; File18/53 I (C 99) Orders in Council for Bahrain, The Trucial Coast, and the Whole of the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume is an amalgamation of two files, which both take up approximately half of the volume. The first file ('File 18/52 I (C 99) The Foreign Jurisdiction (Admiralty) Order in Council') covers the date range 28 November 1910 - 24 November 1925. The file includes papers relating to the drafti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1910-7 May 1942
Extent:
1 volume (207 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/678
Title:
‘File 28/4 Trading with the enemy’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of printed circulars and notices issued by the British Government, memoranda and letters issued by the Government of India, and copies of correspondence to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, relating to trade with countries and territories regarded as the enemy, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1939-4 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 volume (498 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/679

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/679
Title:
‘File 28/5 I Export licences for shipments of oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to oil exports made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and to a lesser extent the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), and the need for regulation of oil exports during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1939-26 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/680

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/680
Title:
‘File 28/5 II License for export of oil from Bahrain. Rules, Regulations & correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the issue of licences (also referred to as permits) for petroleum exports from Bahrain during the Second World War, and to questions over the continuation of the issue of the same licences in the immediate post-war period. Correspondents i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-9 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/681

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/681
Title:
‘File 28/5 III Licenses for export of oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to requests made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for licences to export petroleum products from Bahrain during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1941-17 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (590 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/682

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/682
Title:
‘File 28/5 IV Licenses for Export of Oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to requests made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for licences to export petroleum products from Bahrain during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield; Major Tom Hick...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1943-31 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (399 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/726

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/726
Title:
‘File 28/34-(i) War Emergency Legislation’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the drawing up of: a) an Emergency Order in Council, with Defence Regulations, and b) proclamations by the Rulers of Bahrain and Qatar, for issue in the event of war with Germany. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1939-23 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (102 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/727

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/727
Title:
‘File 28/34-II War emergency legislation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to, and copies of the various orders, regulations and notices, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council, 1939. The file’s principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1939-9 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)