The file contains correspondence, primarily between Anglo Persian Oil Company's (APOC) managers, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Residency Agent at Sharjah and the Political Agent at Bahrain, regarding APOC's oil storage at Sharjah. There is also correspondence with in Arabic be...
File No. 13/3-ii. SHARJAH AIR AGREEMENT (Aerodrome Facilities at Sharjah).
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a signed copy of the Sharjah Civil Air Agreement with accompanying air navigation regulations, and an exchange of letters between the Shaikh of Sharjah (Shaikh Saqr bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī) and the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast (Arthur John Wilton). Also included in th...
File 5/11 II King's Regulations and Amendments under Bahrain Order-in-Council
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning amendments and proposed amendments (by means of King's Regulations) to the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913 (and later Bahrain Orders in Council). The principal correspondents are the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf;...
‘File 12/17 Seamen’s Club and Hostel, Establishment of: Correspondence re:’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay) and the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway) on the prospect of establishing a seamen’s club and hostel at Bahrain. Included w...
File 14/6 Postal commission on Government Servants' money orders
Scope & Content:
A 1930s file which includes material from 1909-1911 collected for reference (folios 2-25). There are no papers between 1911 and 1933. The file concerns the establishment of money order service between Bahrain and Turkey and between Bahrain and India, and its increase from 1933. The corresponden...
‘File 16/1 Correspondence with the American Mission etc.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency and representatives of the American Mission in Arabia (chiefly the American Mission at Bahrain), as well as some British Government correspondence relating to the American Mission in Arabia. Aside from the Political Agent at Bahrain, the file...
‘File 16/32 VII Correspondence with the Bushire Residency’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence exchanged between British offices in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the British Residency and Consulate-General in Bushire, and the Political Agency in Bahrain. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/32 VI Routine correspondence with Bushire Residency’ (I...
‘File 16/32-A Purchases on behalf of Bushire Residency’
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Correspondence and other papers, exchanged between staff at the Political Agency in Bahrain and others, including the British Residency and Consulate in Bushire and the Government of Bahrain, relating to the order or exchange of goods from suppliers, merchants and colleagues, with shipping arran...
‘File 16/42 Visitors and guests of the Political Agent, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, some of a demi-official nature, relating to visitors and guests at the Political Agency at Bahrain. Most of the correspondence is routine, and relates to enquires and arrangements for the arrival and departure of visitors, and in some cases the provision of accommodation and faci...
‘File 16/73 Development of Artesian Water in Muscat’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in the file dated 1941 is the result of an enquiry from the Political Agent in Muscat (Captain Tom Hickinbotham) to the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban), about the prospects for an artesian water supply at Muscat, or elsewhere on the Batinah ...
