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Ext 2823/41 'Bahrain. Report of ban on export of gold & silver coinage. and subsequent smuggling.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the imposition of an export licence system on the trade of gold and silver in the Persian Gulf region, at first to understand the flow of trade, and then to restrict it, lest gold find its way through Turkey into enemy-occupied destinations. Corresponde...
Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal India Office notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Pe...
Coll 5/81 ‘Facilities for U.S. Air Transport Corps at Bahrein and Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the provision of facilities for the United States Air Transport Command at both Bahrain and Sharjah. This includes policy and strategy discussions over how best to maintain British control of the Arabian Coast Air Route; British planners feared that the United...
Coll 29/37 'Bandar Abbas: appointment of Vice Consul; status and jurisdiction; grant of special pension to Mr G A Richardson Indian Medical Department after 30 years' service in the Foreign and Political Department'
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The file mostly concerns appointments at the Bandar Abbas Consulate. The file contains: appointment of George Alexander Richardson as Vice-Consul with local rank of Consul at Bandar Abbas, in 1930proposed grant of a special retiring pension to George Alexander RichardsonGovernment of India's pr...
Coll 29/45(3A) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: Major M P O'C Tandy'
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The file concerns condition of service of Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy, leaving his post of Political Agent in Kuwait in March 1948. The file also covers arrangements for Tandy's successor. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Secretary o...
Coll 29/117 'Air conditioning of the offices and residences of officers in Persia and the Persian Gulf: including Khorramshahr and the shipping office at Abadan'
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The file concerns the provision of air-conditioning equipment in the buildings of the Agencies in the Persian Gulf. The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Office, the British Consulate at Khorramshahr, the British Embassy at Tehran, and...
This file consists of miscellaneous reports regarding internal affairs in Persia towards the end of the occupation of the country by British and Soviet troops. Most of the correspondence is between His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard, succeeded by John Helier Le Rouget...
This volume largely consists of copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office and correspondence. The correspondence concerns the possibility of the Hejaz railway being reconditioned and extended. A large part of the correspondence discusses the issue of ownership regarding the Hejaz railway. Muc...
The volume consists of despatches to the Marquis of Salisbury, HM Principal Secretary of State for India, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Captain William Francis Prideaux, Officiating Political Resident from April 1876. The despatches are dated 26...
File 68/1912 Pt 7 'Arms Traffic: Muscat Arms. - Disposal of. Sample Arms from Muscat. French stocks at Muscat.
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports and two press cuttings relating to the arms traffic in Muscat and arrangements for its regulation. Issues discussed include: acquisition from French dealers at Muscat of sample rifles and...
