Continuing on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/284), this file concerns the position of Administrator, Gwadur [Gwadar]. The file documents the end of the current occupant's term as Administrator, and the recruitment of his successor. Following the selection of a British official for the post, ...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in Muscat territory. The discussion in the volume relates to the following issues: Correspondence with officials of Petroleum Concessions Discussions with Major Frank Holmes about visit...
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in Gwadur which formed part of the territories of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and dependencies. The discussion in the file concerns: Negotiations over oil concessions in Gwadur Corr...
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the search for and potential development of mineral deposits in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. Correspondence in the file includes the discussion of the following issues: The availability of reports...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to offshore oil and the definition of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the volume relates to the following issues: A Saudi proclamation regarding seabed and subsoil rights and dec...
The file is comprised of correspondence and reports sent to and from the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, relating to reports of slaves being imported from Africa to the Persian and Arabian coasts of the Gulf. Intelligence reports are sent to Hennell by his agents...
This file consists of letters sent from and to the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The two officials corresponding on behalf of the Residency are Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Herbert Frederick Disbrowe, Assistant Resident in the Persian Gulf, who i...
File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast
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The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat. The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sh...
‘File 13/4 II Facilities for Foreign Air Company’s using Arabian Air Route’
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The volume is a continuation of ‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’ (IOR/R/15/2/511) and contains correspondence relating to the authorisation of foreign aircraft to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and the route’s aerodrome ...
‘File 13/22 India – Persian Gulf Air Route. India – U.K. Air Route’
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The file contains papers relating to the status of existing, and proposals for new, air routes running along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. Aside from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Bahrain, the principal correspondents in the file are representatives ...
