‘File 28/32 Food requirements from Pakistan. Civil requirements programme’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the export of foodstuffs from Pakistan to the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf, as part of the Civil Requirements Programme. Principal correspondents in the file include: Political Agency staff at Bahrain; the Director (or Act...
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to investigations into the prospect of recruiting large numbers of labourers from the Persian Gulf, for non-combatant military work in Basra, and later on, civilian (oil refinery) labour at Abadan. The principal correspondents ...
The file comprises copies of correspondence concerning arrangements for wireless radio communications at Bahrain during wartime. Correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); representatives of the India Office (John Perci...
‘File 29/24 COFFEE FOR BAHRAIN AND EAST SAUDI ARABIA’
Scope & Content:
The file begins with a letter in 1944 from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, New Delhi to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, refusing the latter’s request for an increase in the amount of coffee made available for export from India to Bahrain, d...
The file contains correspondence relating to policy matters concerning Petroleum Concessions Limited and their subsidiary company, Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited. The correspondence is between the India Office, the Political Residency at Bushire (later Bahrain) [Persian Gulf Political Res...
The file comprises correspondence relating to the work of the Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company Limited (Commander Daniel Harvey Rainier) in the Persian Gulf. The initial correspondence between the Company and the Residency Agent at Sharjah discusses obtaining permission from the Shaikh of ...
File No 13/3-I OF 1951. SHARJAH AIR AGREEMENT (Aerodrome facilities at Sharjah).
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast and the Foreign Office, regarding a new civil air agreement for Sharjah, which was signed on 15 November 1951. The file covers the neg...
File 3/6 II Purchase, upkeep and repair of launches
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence primarily with the Political Agency at Bahrain and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf on the purchase, upkeep and repair of launches, and centres primarily on the need to purchase a new engine and the difficulties in doing so owing to World War Two. This...
The correspondence in the file relates to the upkeep, maintenance and replacement of the launches owned by the Bahrain Political Agency. Much of the discussion relates to the Political Agency's launch Felix Jones, which was damaged during a trip from Bahrain to Shiraz in June 1948, and the Polit...
The file contains records of payments to the Ruler of Kalba for air facilities, for the period 28 September 1936 to 27 December 1944. The papers consist of covering letters from the Political Agent, Bahrain to the Residency Agent, Sharjah forwarding monthly payments of 400 rupees 'for rent of s...
