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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Concessions, Oil, Iran Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/143
Title:
File 1421/1908 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Oil'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, notes, and memoranda concerning oil work in Persia. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India, Foreign Office, and India Office. Included as enclosures is further correspondence, often in the form of printed collections that relate to the ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (350 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3537

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3537
Title:
Coll 28/124 ‘Persia. Application by British, American Companies for oil concessions in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, notes and memoranda, many marked top secret, concerning oil concessions in Persia [Iran] during and immediately after the end of the Second World War, and their use by the Governments of Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America, in maintaining political influen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1943-4 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3543

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3543
Title:
Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Soviet Union’s demand, made to the Iranian Government during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of the country in the Second World War, for an oil concession agreement in northern Persia [Iran]. The file, which is chiefly comprised of correspondence betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Oct 1944-8 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (325 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3544

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3544
Title:
Coll 28/129 ‘OIL; Oil Concessions in North Persia; Request by Soviet Government.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the efforts of the Soviet Union to sign an oil concession agreement with Persia [Iran] covering northern Iran. The papers cover: the Iranian Prime Minister Ahmad Qavam’s involvement in the carrying of a bill for a joint Iranian-Soviet oil company to th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1946-10 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (186 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3545

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3545
Title:
Coll 28/129(2) ‘PERSIA; OIL; Press Extracts.’
Scope & Content:
Newspaper cuttings and extracts from numerous newspapers, reporting on events in Persia [Iran] in late 1944, and relating to the Soviet Union’s efforts to pressurise the Iranian Government into giving it an oil concession in northern Iran. The articles, the majority of which were published in ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1944-13 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3900
Title:
Coll 30/163 'Boundaries of Persian territory: Status of the islands Tumb, Little Tumb, Abu Musa, Farur, Little Farur and Sirri.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the territorial status of a number of islands in the Persian Gulf. The issue arose in response to a request from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited to the Foreign Office in 1938 concerning the extent of Iranian (generally referred to as Persian) territory, in order that the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1938-19 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)