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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Surveying Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/261
Title:
PZ 6598/38 'Muscat and Oman: survey of the channel inside Masirah Island off the coast of Oman'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding the proposed survey of the channel inside Masirah Island [Jazīrat Maşīrah] off the coast of Oman by the surveying ship HMS Challenger. Correspondents include the Admiralty Intelligence Division, and the India Office. The file includes a divider whi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1938-27 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1952

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1952
Title:
Coll 5/7 ‘Afghanistan: Violation of frontier by RAF machines; Special instructions to pilots; General international practice’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned broadly with three topics. The first, found predominantly between folios 102-224, is about complaints made by the Government of Afghanistan over violations of its territory by aircraft of the Royal Air Force, and complaints made by HM Minister at Kabul that the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Nov 1930-20 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/20/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/27
Title:
Report on the preliminary survey of the route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line. By W King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department.
Scope & Content:
Publication statement: Karachi: Government of India Telegraph Department, 1899. The report describes the 'Branch Section' (Ispahan to Ardistan), followed by the five 'Sections', and 'Unsuitable Routes', of the Central Persia Telegraph Line. For each section the report provides a description of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899
Extent:

1 volume (146 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/20/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/122
Title:
‘Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential notes of a journey made through Persia [Iran] from Shiraz to Jashk [Jāsk], via Fassa [Fasā], Dārāb, Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Mīnāb, by John Richard Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the Telegraph Department, Persia. The report was published by the Intelligence Branch, Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1884
Extent:

1 volume (26 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/528
Title:
‘File 13/23 Survey of P.G. [Persian Gulf] Aerodromes’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the arrival in Bahrain in January 1947, of a survey party, who are touring the head of the Persian Gulf to assess the region’s aerodromes. The principal correspondents in the file are the Bahrain Political Agent, Captain Hug...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1946-3 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/277
Title:
File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Kuwait, and British Authorities in London and Iraq regarding the aerial survey of the Neutral Zone that lies between the Kuwaiti-Iraqi and Saudi Arabian borders. Several papers discuss concerns held by Saudi authorities that aerial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1930-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)