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1. IOR/L/PS/10/298

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/298
Title:
File 3632/1912 ‘Telegraphs – Wireless in Persia’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British government officials about the Italian Government’s support for proposals by the British company Marconi, initially in association with the German company Telefunken, to establish a network of wireless (radio) telegraph stations in Persia. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Mar 1912-27 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (316 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/615
Title:
File P 3372/1916 Pt 1 'Arab Revolt: the French Mission. French Designs in Hedjaz'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, and India Office Secret Department minute papers, mostly relating to French policy regarding the Hedjaz [Hejaz or Hijaz]. This correspondence largely consists of: copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and the British High Commissioner of Egypt (Sir Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Aug 1916-31 May 1917
Extent:

1 volume (178 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/4114A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4114A
Title:
Coll 35/12 'Kuwait: post and telegraph office; participation of Iraq in Empire Air Mail Scheme'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Post and Telegraph Office in Kuwait and its development, to sustain the growing oil industry in Kuwait. The file contains: Proposed transfer of the control of the Post Office from Iraq to the Government of India, 1925-29 Proposed abolition of the Iraq Post and Telegraph Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1925-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/4117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4117
Title:
Coll 35/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: postal administration'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the postal service in Persia and in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: Review of postal service in Persia [Iran] and in the Persian Gulf, with complaints of inefficiencies since their transfer under Persian administration, 1923 Bushire - Shiraz mail service, 1923 Proposed ap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jun 1923-13 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (204 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4125
Title:
Coll 35/19 'Persian Gulf: proposed erection by Persian Government of wireless stations at Persian Gulf ports'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the proposed erection by Persian Government of wireless stations on the coasts of the Persian Gulf, at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bushire. The file contains a document in French, an invitation to tender. The file contains correspondence between the British Legation at Teh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Feb 1934-14 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/4129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4129
Title:
Coll 35/23 'Arabia: establishment of cable communication between Shaikh Said and Perim'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the re-establishment of cable communication between Sheikh Said and the island of Perim [Yemen], proposed by the ruler of Yemen in 1932, and negotiations with Eastern Telegraph Company Limited. The file contains correspondence between: the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jan 1932-26 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4135
Title:
Coll 35/26 'Cable reorganisation in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the reorganisation of telegraph communications in Iran after 1935. The file contains: Closure of Naval Station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū], and of British Cemetery and Henjam Wireless Station, 1935 Negotiations with Cable and Wireless on their proposal to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Mar 1935-18 Dec 1937
Extent:
1 volume (561 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4143
Title:
Coll 35/34 'Persian Gulf: allocation of Persian call signs to Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's wireless stations at Abadan and Maidan-i-Naftun'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the allocation of call signs for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's wireless telegraph stations at Abadan and Maidan-i-Naftun, Iran. The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 May 1937-13 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/557-572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/557-572
Title:
File 17 Posts and Telegraphs
Scope & Content:
The Posts and Telegraphs sub-sub-series discusses matters relating to wireless telegraphy, postal services and other communications matters affecting Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, particularly during the Second World War. Included in the sub-sub-series are discussions around exist...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1932-1949
Extent:
16 files and volumes (1513 folios)