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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language English Name Air Ministry, 1918-1964

1. IOR/L/PS/10/965/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/965/1
Title:
File 537/1921 Part 1 'Persia: Oil - Defence of A.P. Oil Co's fields etc'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding the protection of oilfields in Arabistan, Persia [the southern part of Khuzestan Province, Iran] run by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). Topics discussed include: The withdrawal of a British military unit from Ahwaz [Ahvaz] followin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1920-21 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 item (161 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1205
Title:
File 595/1927 Pt 1 ‘Air Route to India: Arabian Coast Route.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, surveys, reports, telegrams, extracts, and minutes regarding a proposed route over the Arabian coast, as part of an air route to India. The papers notably cover the following: Discussion with the Government of Persia [Iran] on the use of the south...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1926-31 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (456 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1206/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1206/2
Title:
File 595/1927 Pt 3 ‘Air Route to India: Petrol Barge at Ras-al-Khaimah’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams, extracts, and minutes regarding the south Persia [Iran] air route to India. The papers notably cover the following: Conflict at Ras-al-Khaimah [Ra’s al-Khaymah] on the Trucial Coast of the Persian Gulf, in connection with the arran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 May 1930-10 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 item (150 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1248/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1248/1
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 17 'Iraq-Nejd relations: Southern Desert of Iraq.'
Scope & Content:
The part concerns the administration of the Southern Desert of Iraq, and the situation on the border between Iraq and the kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd. The papers cover: correspondence from Sir Andrew Ryan, HM Minister at Jeddah, the Foreign Office, and the Colonial Office concerning the Hejaz and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1930-18 Apr 1933
Extent:
1 item (36 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf negotiations 1928. Revision of Foreign Office Memorandum of 1908 for C.I.D. Persian Gulf Sub-Committee.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the revision of a 1908 Foreign Office memorandum on British interests in the Persian Gulf by the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade. The memorandum was being revised at the request of the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1928-17 Jan 1929
Extent:

1 item (218 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1272/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1272/2
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 14 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control: 1. Telegraphic Communication between British Authorities in the Persian Gulf. 2. Conditions under which Pol. Rs. P. Gulf may communicate with A.O.C. Iraq.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to communications between British authorities in the Persian Gulf. The papers mainly concern the following: the sharing of telegraphic communications between the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf, the Political Resident at Bushi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jun 1928-19 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 item (94 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1273
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 16 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control Report of the Warren Fisher Committee.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning political control in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The first half of the file relates to the inter-departmental Sub-Committee of Political Control of the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Sub-Committee on Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1929-8 Aug 1939
Extent:

1 file (285 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1275
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 2 ‘Muscat Situation at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1926-19 Nov 1931
Extent:

1 volume (396 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/98
Title:
PZ 1084/34 'Supply of Secret & Confidential Publications to the Air Ministry Who's who of the N.W.F. Tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains printed copies of the bi-annual Addenda and Corrigenda to Who’s Who in the North-West Frontier Province, for the years 1934 to 1937. This biographical compilation is one of several confidential and secret Government of India intelligence publications made available to serving of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1934-30 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/281
Title:
PZ 1058/1939 'Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Standard Oil Company of California's oil concession in Bahrein [Bahrain]. The correspondence is concerned with whether or not it would be appropriate for Imperial Airways to assist the Californian company in developing aerial infrastructure in Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1939-23 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)