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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1947-2060 Place Trucial Coast, Arabian Peninsula, Asia Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1955

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1955
Title:
Coll 5/10 ‘Air Route to India: Persia; Arabian Coast Route; Negotiations with Arab Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, and minutes related to a proposal to relocate the Persian Gulf Air Route (linking Europe and India) from Southern Persia to the Arabian Coast. The proposal is related to difficulties between the British and Persian governments over securing an exten...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1931-25 Sep 1932
Extent:
1 volume (393 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1966
Title:
Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal India Office notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1932-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (636 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1978

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978
Title:
Coll 5/28 ‘Air Route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Debai Air Agreement’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes related to air facilities required by Imperial Airways (from 1940 the British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) along the Arabian Coast. The file therefore contains a number of lists (some of which are categorised by pri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1933-30 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (465 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2030

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2030
Title:
Coll 5/68 ‘Air route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Security of the Air Route; emergency landing arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the security of the Arab Coast Air Route, used by both Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force (RAF). The majority of the file is devoted to proposals made by Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in his letter da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1939-11 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2040

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2040
Title:
Coll 5/78 ‘Facilities for the R.A.F. on the Arab Coast’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding proposals to station a Royal Air Force (RAF) light bomber squadron at Sharjah and a reconnaissance squadron at Dubai. It also discusses works to be undertaken at aerodromes in Bahrain, Sharjah, Dubai, and Kalba. This correspondence has been circulated t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1942-5 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2047

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2047
Title:
Coll 5/84(2) ‘Chicago Agreement: Position of Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms with regard to post war Civil Aviation; International Civil Aviation Organisation Meeting in Cairo 1946. Tandy's Deputation.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the position of the Gulf States – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Bahrain, Dubai, Kalba, Kuwait, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaywayn – under the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1946), also known as the Chicago Convention. Much of the correspondence is c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1945-20 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (431 folios)