‘File 7/6 Proposal to construct ammunition dump at Bahrain & Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents concern the establishment of an ammunition and bomb store at the Royal Air Force (RAF) aerodrome at Sharjah. Mention is made of the requirement for a bomb store at the RAF base at Bahrain at the beginning of the file, but it does not constitute a significant part of the file....
‘File 7/12 II Protection of aerodromes by levies (and locally recruited guards)’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents concern the withdrawal of Royal Air Force (RAF) levies from the RAF bases at Bahrain and Sharjah in response to the end of the Second World War, and subsequent arrangements to replace the levies with guards to maintain security at these bases. The principal correspondents in ...
File 9/12 Gray, Mackenzie & Co Ltd: affairs and activities in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the activities of Gray Mackenzie & Co. Gray Mackenzie & Co requests from the Government of Bahrain a renewal of the licence to act as landing company for loading and discharging goods in the...
File 10/15 Annex. Radio telephone communications between Bahrain and Dhahran
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and telegrams by the Political Agent at Bahrain, authorising the use of radio telephonic communications between Bahrain and Dharhan, to communicate messages for California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), and confirmati...
File 10/32 Strike by crew of SS Alfred Clegg (Panamania)
Scope & Content:
The file contains the copy of a memorandum sent by the Superintendent of the State Police in Bahrain on the strike of 25 members of the crew of the Steam Ship Alfred Clegg at Sitra, demanding better pay. There is an index at the end of the file (folio 3).
File 12/10 Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, Hugh Weightman, mostly from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political agent at Sharjah, regarding arrangements and programmes for his official visits to the Persian Gulf in 1939 ...
‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to requests from foreign airlines – chiefly the Dutch company Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) and Air France – to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and its aerodrome facilities at Bahrain, Gwadur [Gwādar, then a...
The volume contains correspondence related to a number of issues concerning the slave trade and slavery in the Gulf region: Correspondence related to the League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts, and its request for information about slavery in the Persian Gulf region. The papers include ...
‘File 25/5 Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of the Charter of the United Nations (ff 5-10), signed on 26 June 1945, on the conclusion of the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, held in San Francisco. Also included in the file, as part of the Charter, is a printed copy of the Statute of the Inte...
‘File 28/43 Removal of the pilot-balloon observatory in a grave emergency’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence relating to the operation of Bahrain’s Pilot Balloon Observatory, used to recorded meteorological data, during wartime. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); and the Superintending Meteorolo...
