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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/73
Title:: File 27/1 Koweit Trade Reports
Scope & Content:: This volume primarily concerns the preparation and submission of annual trade reports. Most of the volume consists of copies of trade reports for Kuwait (for each financial year from 1912-1913 up to and including 1916-1917), which are submitted by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain William Hen...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 3 Aug 1912-27 Dec 1918
Extent:: 1 volume (257 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/74
Title:: File 27/12 II Kuwait Trade Reports from 1917-18 to 1923-24
Scope & Content:: This volume primarily concerns the preparation and submission of annual trade reports. Most of the volume consists of copies of trade reports for Kuwait (for each financial year from 1917-1918 up to and including 1923-1924), which are submitted by the Political Agent, Kuwait [Captain Daniel Vinc...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 8 Feb 1919-1 Apr 1924
Extent:: 1 volume (294 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/75
Title:: File 27/12 III Data for the Trade Report for 1921/22
Scope & Content:: This file consists entirely of data (in the form of handwritten notes and tables) that has been used to compile the tables of statistics that appear in the 1921-1922 trade report for Kuwait, which is included in the previous volume in this sub-sub-series (IOR/R/15/5/74). The file contains brief...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1921?-1922?
Extent:: 1 file (50 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/76
Title:: File 27/12 IV Draft Trade Report for Kuwait for the year 1920-21
Scope & Content:: This file contains detailed tabulated trade reports (largely in Arabic) for the port of Kuwait for the year 1920-21. Expanded trade records are recorded on large folded sheets that organise the trade records according to method of transport (steam versus sailing ship), ports of origin, commodity,...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Sep 1921-3 Nov 1921
Extent:: 1 file (95 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/77
Title:: File 27/12 V TRADE REPORT 1923/24 1924/25 1925/26 1926/27 1927/28
Scope & Content:: These two volumes (parts 1 and 2) contain the Kuwait trade reports for each financial year from 1923-1924 up to and including 1927-1928. As documented in the volumes, advanced copies of the reports are submitted by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Major James Carmichael More), to the Persian Gulf P...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:: 26 Sep 1921-3 Nov 1928
Extent:: 2 volumes (392 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/78
Title:: File 27/3 ‘German Shipping & Trade Competition’
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence, memoranda reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the German and Japanese interest in shipping and trade in the Persian Gulf, particularly in Kuwait (also written in some parts of the file as Koweit). The papers notably cover/include the following: The est...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 23 Dec 1906-27 Nov 1916
Extent:: 1 file (105 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/79
Title:: File 27/4 Miscellaneous Trade Reports
Scope & Content:: This volume relates to the trade reports of various British agencies and consulates in the Persian Gulf. The first folio of the volume contains a list of contents that is not entirely accurate. The volume does begin with a report entitled 'Report on the Trade of Oman, Bahrein [sic], and Arab Por...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Apr 1904-11 Jan 1933
Extent:: 1 volume (347 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/80
Title:: File XXVIII.1 Beacon & light for Ras ul-Arz
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence, plans, drawings, and costing estimates for the erection of a beacon and light at Ras-ul-Arz at Kuwait harbour.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Nov 1904-11 Feb 1929
Extent:: 1 file (338 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/81
Title:: File XXVIII/2. Survey of Kuwait Harbour
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence and official memoranda between the Political Agency in Kuwait, the Political Residency in Bushire, and the Marine Survey of India, Bombay. The file includes logistical papers and letters relating to preparations, costing estimates, and scheduling for a survey of...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Nov 1904-11 Sep 1906
Extent:: 1 file (58 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/82
Title:: File XXVIII/3 Red light for Kuwait Anchorage
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence, and official paperwork relating to the construction of port lighting facilities at Kuwait Harbour. The file also contains two detailed diagrams of proposed light at the Harbour. The file also contains numerous purchase receipts for materials required for constru...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Oct 1906-14 Sep 1922
Extent:: 1 file (187 folios)

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