File 10/2 The chief local representative - B.A.P.C.O.
Scope & Content:
The file contains documents and correspondence on the employment of a Chief Local Representative for the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) and on the temporary appointment of an American subject. The file contains a letter in Arabic from the Political Agent to the Sheikh of Bahrain, Sal...
File 10/17 (10/26) Priority air freight for BAPCO cinema films
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters between Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), the Political Agent in Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation to transport BAPCO's films to India by air. There is an index at the end of the file (folio 6). The reference number 10/26 on the cover is cr...
File 10/20 Drilling for water by BAPCO at Jidda Island
Scope & Content:
The file contains a confidential letter from Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) Chief Local Representative to the Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, on the water well on Jidda Island. There is an index (folio 3), referring to another item of correspondence ...
The file contains correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region. A significant portion of the papers relate to allegations of slave trading into Qatar. In a letter dated 14 October 1945, Lady Kathleen Simon, a prominent representative of the Anti-Slavery Society, draw...
‘File 28/28-III Military requirements: supply of coke (Bahrain smalls) by BAPCO’
Scope & Content:
The file contains post-war correspondence related to the export of petroleum coke (also referred to as ‘Bahrain smalls’) produced by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) from Bahrain. A telegram from the Washington Coal Committee to the London Coal Committee, dated 5 March 1946, states that the...
File 31/6 (4/7 II) EDUCATION OF YOUNGER MEMBERS OF AL KHALIFAH
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the education of the younger members of the Al Khalifah Ruling Family. Topics discussed include arrangements for judicial training in Palestine and the practicalities of starting a degree course at either Stanford University in the United States of Amer...
File 31/15 Visits of Members of Al Khalifah to Foreign Countries
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The file contains correspondence about the visits of members of the Al Khalifah to Amara in Iraq for hunting purposes. Discussion focuses on the difficulties created when requests for travel documents did not go through the proper channels. Correspondents include: Cornelius James Pelly, Politi...
File 35/1 (1 B/5 II) Social Legislation in Bahrain and Reform of Bahrain Laws
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to a variety of topics grouped under the broad rubric of social legislation and legal reform. The correspondence is primarily between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in...
File 38/19 Mr Thanu Pillai of Petroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter, with enclosures, from Basil Lermitte of Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited, to Cornelius James Pelly, the Political Agent at Bahrain. The reply is also included. The letter and its enclosures relate to the case of Mr P Thanu Pillai, an Indian stenographer at the c...
File 1/36 Appointment of a Temporary Upper Division Clerk from 1 November 1935
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence, telegrams, office orders, and a last pay certificate, and relates to the appointment, terms and conditions, travel costs, service, pay, and leave of an appointee to the position of Temporary Clerk in the Upper Division.
