The file contains correspondence with the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) regarding banking in Bahrain by the Eastern Bank Limited, in particular transportation and insurance of notes from India to Bahrain.
The document is a report on the visit by representatives of the Bahrain General Merchants Association to the Political Agency at Bahrain. The newly formed association voiced its discontent for the electricity costs imposed by the Bahrain Electric Department and requested clarity on the import of ...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and Gray, Mackenzie & Co Ltd, including monthly reports submitted by the company for the cargo loaded and discharged in the Gulf ports.
File 9/22 Opening of second bank in Bahrain: Imperial Bank of Iran
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The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in Bushire, the Political Agent in Bahrain and representatives of the Imperial Bank of Iran on the opening of a branch of the Imperial Bank of Iran in Bahrain. The bank in question is the second bank in Bahrain, and the new branch ...
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the development of new fisheries in Abadan, to improve the diet of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's staff. There are two copies of a report on Abadan fishery schemes, (ff 5-19 and ff 23-37) and a brief...
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning measures to increase the export of goods from the United Kingdom and India after the end of the Second World War, when American products started arriving in the Persian Gulf.
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the manager of Gray Mackenzie & Co, and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain concerning measures to contrast pilfering of goods from ships.
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the proposed opening of a bank called Indian and Persian Gulf Bank Ltd with Iraqi capital, headquarters in Karachi and branches at Kuwait, Dubai and Muscat. There is a letter in Arabic with English t...
File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast
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The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat. The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sh...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, the Adviser to the Bahrain Government, and the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, to fulfill a request by the Department of Overseas Trade to supply statistics for the ...