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311. IOR/R/15/2/260, f 219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/260, f 219
Title:
Tracing copy of plan ‘JUFAIR. No. 2’
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: A tracing of a plan based on a provisional survey carried out on 22 July 1934 enclosed to a copy of a ‘Report on areas acquired in Bahrein’ by Major K.M. Papworth (folios 210-211). Shows the extent of the land designated for the Naval Base situated at Ras Al Jufair about...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:

1 map

312. IOR/R/15/2/532, f 4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/532, f 4
Title:
Plan of air station at Sharjah
Scope & Content:
Copy of a plan of the aerodrome at Sharjah, originally enclosed with a letter from the Political Residency to the Bahrain Political Agent, dated 7 May 1949 (f 104). The map has been traced or reproduced from the map of the RAF station at folio 3, although this map is entitled ‘Sharjah’ instead o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1949
Extent:
1 map

313. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 59
Title:
‘Comparative tire [tyre] sections used on Fords in Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The diagram shows tire [tyre] sections of Ford trucks used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, for the following tyre makes and models: Goodyear Air Wheel; Dunlop; Royal Atlas; Firestone (English); Goodrich Silvertown (American, spelt Slivertown in the diagram). The d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 diagram

314. IOR/R/15/2/215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/215
Title:
File 5/6 Flying of Persian Flag by Foreign Ships Entering Persian Ports
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from the Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, and Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, British Political Agent at Bahrain, and encloses correspondence with the British Vice-Consul at Mohammerah ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

315. IOR/R/15/2/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/225
Title:
File 5/20 Flying of Flags by B.I.S.N. Company
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent at Bahrain; the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; the Residency Agent at Sharjah; and representatives of Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited. These papers concern the practice of merchants' vessels, for...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1947-16 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

316. IOR/R/15/2/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/227
Title:
File 5/23 Visits of U.S. Naval Vessels to the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, British Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; the Commonwealth Relations Office, London; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; Captain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1947-17 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

317. IOR/R/15/2/233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/233
Title:
File 6/11 Shaikh Ahmad ibn Obaid of Heryan [Henjam] (Uncle of Shaikh of Dubai)
Scope & Content:
The file relates to consultations and enquiries by British officials following the arrest of Sheikh Ahmad ibn Obaid of Henjam by the Persian Government. The Sheikh of Dubai, nephew of Sheikh Ahmad, wished to go Bandar Abbas to investigate the affair, but the British were keen to prevent his goin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1933-20 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

318. IOR/R/15/2/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/266
Title:
‘File 7/2 IV R.A.F. Landing Grounds & Anchorages’
Scope & Content:
The volume’s correspondence and other papers relate to the construction of air facilities along the Arab coast of the Gulf, and as such is a continuation of volumes IOR/R/15/2/263-265. The principal correspondents in the volume are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1935-18 Aug 1936
Extent:
1 volume (265 folios)

319. IOR/R/15/2/286

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/286
Title:
‘File 7/23 Emergency landing grounds at T.C. [Trucial Coast]’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to the maintenance and continued use of Royal Air Force (RAF) emergency landing grounds along the Arab coast of the Gulf, and in particular those at Abu Dhabi, Bani Yas island [Şīr Banī Yās] and Doha. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1944-12 Jul 1948
Extent:
1 file (57 folios)

320. IOR/R/15/2/290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/290
Title:
‘File 7/28 Payment of toll gate fees by R.A.F.’
Scope & Content:
The contents of the file relate to a proposal (folio 1B) made by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield) to the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) that a monthly fee be paid by the RAF to allow their vehicles to cross the Manama-Muharraq causeway, in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1942-13 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

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