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File 6/45 Licensing of motor cars and driving rules - correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to driving regulations and licensing in Bahrain. The correspondence is mostly between the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Political Agency in Bahrain, and the Office of Traffic Branch of the Bahrain State Police. Further c...
File 19/2 V Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for official visits of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Bahrain and other Persian Gulf countries between 1945 and 1950. The principal correspondents are: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC); the Political...
‘File 7/1 II Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
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The file is concerned with the introduction of a new Order in Council to clarify the extent of British jurisdiction over foreigners in Kuwait, prompted by ongoing oil negotiations between Kuwait and the United States. The primary British concern being the removal of the requirement that Britain ...
File [IIA/1 II] II. AVIATION. A. CIVIL AVIATION. (1) Civil Air Agreement with Sultan.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters and memoranda between representatives of the British Government, Imperial Airways and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa‘id bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd. The correspondence in the volume is related to the following: the Muscat Air Nav...
File 8/29 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: ACTIVITIES OF SAIYID TAIMUR BIN FAISAL
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This file relates to the activities of Sir Sayid Taimur bin Faisal [Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Sa‘īd], former Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The correspondence reports on the ex-Sultan's business interests and on his travels under the alias T F T Al Said. Most of the correspondence covers the p...
'File 8/62 Muscat State Affairs: Principal Shaikhs and Tribes of Oman'
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This file concerns relations between the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the shaikhs of the Omani tribes. Much of the correspondence discusses the Sultan's ambition to secure the allegiance of the Omani shaikhs and consolidate his authority in the interior of Oman. T...
File 8/85 II MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS. MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS FOR MUSCAT.
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Continuing on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/276), this file concerns the appointment of the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Muscat. The correspondence mainly concerns travel expenses for the newly appointed Basil Woods Ballard's journey from London to Muscat, via Bahrain. Also discussed is...
File 9/21 Naval & Shipping: Persian Navy - activities & visits to Arab ports
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the activities of the Persian Navy in the Persian Gulf. The papers deal with the movements of Persian naval vessels along the Arab coast of the Gulf, the discussion over what action should be taken in response to unheralded visits, and communication wi...
The volume is entitled Report on Najd Mission, 1917-1918 (Baghdad: Government Press, 1918). The report describes the mission headed by Harry St John Bridger Philby to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥman bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)], ruler of Najd and Imam of the Wahahbi [Wahhabi] sec...
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
