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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language English Name Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited, 1909-1954

1. IOR/L/PS/10/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/143
Title:
File 1421/1908 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Oil'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, notes, and memoranda concerning oil work in Persia. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India, Foreign Office, and India Office. Included as enclosures is further correspondence, often in the form of printed collections that relate to the ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (350 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/243
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, handwritten correspondence, notes and other papers. This relates to the operation of British Indian post offices in Persia, and in particular in the region known as Arabistan [Ahvāz] by British officials. The file is a direct chronological c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1919
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/301
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 volume (148 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/1
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 part (184 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/302/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
Scope & Content:
A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and antic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 part (29 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/410
Title:
File 3654/1913 ‘Pts 1.2.&3. PERSIA:- ADMIRALTY OIL COMMISSION’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1, 2 and 3 of the subject ‘Persia – Admiralty Oil Commission’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/1) concerns the Admiralty Oil Commission, which is also referred to as Admiral Slade’s Committee. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/410/2) concerns the Admiralty’s contract with the Anglo-Persian O...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1918
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/462
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning diplomatic tensions between the British and Ottoman Governments at the outset of the First World War, including social unrest and military/naval movements in Baghdad, Basra, and the Shatt al-Arab. The volume’s papers were produced prior to the Ottoman Ruler Sultan Mehmed V’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1914-25 Oct 1914
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/482
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 5 'German War: Persia; situation in Arabistan 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in southern Persia and in the territories of the Shatt al-Arab, during the First World War. The main focus is the protection of oilfields. The volume covers: The Arab movement in Mesopotamia. Possible despatch of troops to the Kārun river and to Ahwaz [A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1915-26 Jul 1916
Extent:
1 volume (196 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/483
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 6 'German War: Persia; general situation May-July 1915'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns events that happened in Persia and Balochistan, during the First World War. The main focus is measures to be taken in the event of Persia entering the War against Great Britain. The volume covers: Advice of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on measures to be taken i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1915-16 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)