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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Air Ministry, 1918-1964 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1205
Title:
File 595/1927 Pt 1 ‘Air Route to India: Arabian Coast Route.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, surveys, reports, telegrams, extracts, and minutes regarding a proposed route over the Arabian coast, as part of an air route to India. The papers notably cover the following: Discussion with the Government of Persia [Iran] on the use of the south...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1926-31 Jan 1934
Extent:
1 volume (456 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1273
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 16 ‘Persian Gulf: Political Control Report of the Warren Fisher Committee.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning political control in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula. The first half of the file relates to the inter-departmental Sub-Committee of Political Control of the Persian Gulf Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence. The Sub-Committee on Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1929-8 Aug 1939
Extent:

1 file (285 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1275
Title:
File 4640/1928 Pt 2 ‘Muscat Situation at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers concerning the situation at Sur in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The papers mainly relate to ‘difficulties’ which had arisen between the tribes of Sur and the Government of Muscat, inter-tribal and inter-factional rivalries, the question of what action the British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1926-19 Nov 1931
Extent:

1 volume (396 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/98
Title:
PZ 1084/34 'Supply of Secret & Confidential Publications to the Air Ministry Who's who of the N.W.F. Tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains printed copies of the bi-annual Addenda and Corrigenda to Who’s Who in the North-West Frontier Province, for the years 1934 to 1937. This biographical compilation is one of several confidential and secret Government of India intelligence publications made available to serving of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1934-30 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/281
Title:
PZ 1058/1939 'Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Standard Oil Company of California's oil concession in Bahrein [Bahrain]. The correspondence is concerned with whether or not it would be appropriate for Imperial Airways to assist the Californian company in developing aerial infrastructure in Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1939-23 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/370

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/370
Title:
PZ 2186/40 'Iraq: government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements with Arab rulers not in Aitchison's Treaties'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Iraqi Government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements, made between HM Government and Arab rulers, which do not appear in Charles Umpherston Aitchison's Treaties. Folios 9-12 provide a list of treaties relating to Arab principal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1940-26 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/806
Title:
Ext 1463/43 'Chinese mission to the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Military Attaché in China and the Commander-in-Chiefs in India and the Middle East as of March 1943. The mission starts from Chungking via Calcutta to Cairo. The mission was comprised of Major-General Hoo Hsien Chung, Major-General Lam Wai Ching, Col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1943-15 Mar 1943
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1450

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1450
Title:
Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding proposals to alter the basis of treaty relationships with tribes in the Aden Protectorate, comprising annotated treaty drafts, plus correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the India Office Political Department, the Aden Resident (later C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1929-1 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (188 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/1452

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1452
Title:
Coll 1/15 'Arab-Jewish riots: Suggested increase in Police and Defence Forces; question of compensation for loss of and damage to property'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the Arab-Jewish disturbances which took place in the Aden Settlement on the 23-25 May 1932. The disturbances occurred following the alleged defilement of a mosque. The file contains reports and internal memos, plus correspondence between: the Aden Resident; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1932-13 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (351 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/1453

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1453
Title:
Coll 1/17 'Aden Defence Scheme: authority by whom regulations governing food control, censorship, etc, should be issued'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes regarding the development of the draft Aden Defence Scheme, and the authority under which the Resident (later Chief Commissioner) of Aden was able to exercise emergency powers, for example relating to censorship, arrest, and control of economic security...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1932-18 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)