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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1416
Title:: File 14/3 II Establishments, pay and allowances etc
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding staff, pay, and allowances at the Post Office in Bahrain. The file mainly concerns drinking water allowance, house rent allowance and other benefits for Post Office clerks, and includes a letter signed by all staff requesting a pay rise. ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Aug 1939-11 Nov 1950
Extent:: 1 file (120 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1417
Title:: File 14/4 Post Office at Moharraq
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding the need for facilities to convey mail at Moharraq (Muharraq, Bahrain) and the subsequent arrangements for the opening of a Post Office, staffed with a postman sent from Manama via boat twice a week to make deliveries, clean the letterbox ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Feb 1928-26 Apr 1949
Extent:: 1 file (95 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1418
Title:: File 14/5 Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Shargah and Dubai
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and telegrams discussing the proposal to open a Post Office in Sharjah and Dubai. The Ruler of Sharjah requests that the name of Sharjah is printed on the stamps. The file also contains agreements with Imperial Airways for the delivery of mail, and arrangements f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1932-27 Mar 1940
Extent:: 1 file (266 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1419
Title:: File 14/5 II Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Sharjah and Dubai
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and telegrams discussing the opening of a Post Office in Dubai, rather than in Sharjah (see IOR/R/15/2/1418); the main subjects are arrangements for the building, air mail facilities and conveyance of mail. The file contains an agreement with the contractor for t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Jul 1940-9 Jun 1945
Extent:: 1 file (229 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1420
Title:: File 14/5 III Correspondence regarding postal arrangements at Sharjah and Dubai
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding the postal service in Dubai. The file includes the 1946-1947 agreements with the contractor for the conveyance of mail at Dubai, Khan Sahib Husain (on folios 35-39 and 65-68), and correspondence regarding the purchase of a second hand car ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 12 Jun 1945-22 Mar 1948
Extent:: 1 file (98 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1421
Title:: File 14/6 Postal commission on Government Servants' money orders
Scope & Content:: A 1930s file which includes material from 1909-1911 collected for reference (folios 2-25). There are no papers between 1911 and 1933. The file concerns the establishment of money order service between Bahrain and Turkey and between Bahrain and India, and its increase from 1933. The corresponden...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 19 Nov 1909-28 Apr 1942
Extent:: 1 file (44 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1422
Title:: File 14/7 Enquiries and requests for the new surcharged Bahrain stamps
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence and telegrams from stamp dealers and collectors, requesting the newly issued Bahrain stamps and placing orders to purchase them. A list of stamps is on folio 14, and there is also mention of a special issue of stamps to commemorate the Silver Wedding of King Geor...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Sep 1933-11 Jun 1950
Extent:: 1 file (85 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1423
Title:: File 14/8 Introduction of trans-desert mail service
Scope & Content:: The file contains the copy of a letter forwarded by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Political Agent at Bahrain. The letter, written by the Secretary General Post Office to the Foreign Office, in London, concerns the introduction of a trans-desert mail service between Damascus a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Sep 1933-24 Oct 1933
Extent:: 1 file (4 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1424
Title:: File 14/9 Correspondence re confidential and secret covers sent through commanders of BI steamers, BOAC etc or by other safe hand means
Scope & Content:: The file consists of correspondence and telegrams requesting the collection and the delivery of letters and bags containing confidential and secret communication (not included). The principal correspondents are: Gray, Mackenzie & Co Ltd; Cable and Wireless Limited; the British Consul at Bas...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2 Jan 1936-13 May 1947
Extent:: 1 file (170 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1425
Title:: File 14/10 Bahrain: Post Office building
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding the lease of the Post Office and Sub-Postmaster's house in Manamah. The file includes copies of the 1944 rental agreement, between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain and the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs at New Delhi (folios 20, 21, 26...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Feb 1940-2 Dec 1950
Extent:: 1 file (165 folios)

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