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651. IOR/R/15/2/877

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/877
Title:
File 39/6 (10/8) Oil concessions in W Arabia & Asir
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the British Agent at Sharjah, the British Legation at Jedda, the Foreign Office and the Political Resident at Bahrain. The correspondence discusses the possibility of an oil concession in Asir and Western Arabia by the Eastern and General Syndicate and Cal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1934-13 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

652. IOR/R/15/2/880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/880
Title:
File 39/10 (10/24) Meetings of the Baghdad Petroleum Advisory Committee
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Government of India, the British Embassy at Baghdad, California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and the Political Resident at Bahrain, regarding the monthly meetings of the Petroleum Advisory Commit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1942-19 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

653. IOR/R/15/2/448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/448
Title:
File 10/21 (10/1 B) Bahrain Oil Concession: Proposal by the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited to install radio telephones
Scope & Content:
The file is formed by two files put together. The first part of the file contains minutes of meetings at Office of the Secretary of State for India in London, and correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Resident in Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1933-9 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (128 folios)

654. IOR/R/15/2/563

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/563
Title:
FILE NO. 17/14 - Vol-I POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS. WIRELESS STATIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATIONS WITH ARABIAN MAINLAND.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to an agreement reached in 1935 between the Saudi Arab Government and Cable and Wireless for the provision of external wireless telegraph communications from Saudi Arabia, including a proposed service between Hasa and Bahrain. A copy of the agreement ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932-23 Nov 1940
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

655. IOR/R/15/2/693

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/693
Title:
‘File 28/10 (b) Bonafides of C.A.S.O.C. [California-Arabian Standard Oil Company] & Bapco [Bahrain Petroleum Company] employees.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to investigations made by the Political Agency in Bahrain, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and British Government departments, into CASOC and BAPCO employees suspected of having ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1940-28 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

656. IOR/R/15/2/764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/764
Title:
‘File 28/78 Shaikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait’s messages of loyalty and BAPCO’s [Bahrain Petroleum Company’s] offer of help at outbreak of war – Shaikh’s gift’
Scope & Content:
The file includes letters, telegrams and other papers relating to messages of support received by British Government officials in the Gulf, from the Rulers of Bahrain, Dubai and Sharjah, and from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), in response to events in Europe that resulted in Britain’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1939-13 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

657. IOR/R/15/2/653

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/653
Title:
‘File 28/1 B 1. Gift of £30,000 of Shaikh of Bahrain to the British Government; 2. Purchase of fighter aircraft; 3. Persian Gulf Fighter Fund’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to a financial gift made to the British Government by the Ruler of Bahrain, and a fund set up for the purchase of fighter plans for the Persian Gulf: correspondence relating to the receipt and cashing of a gift of £30,000 made by the Ruler of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1939-23 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

658. IOR/R/15/2/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/599
Title:
‘WILFRED THESIGER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the movements of Wilfred Thesiger at the end of his second crossing of the Empty Quarter [al-Rub‘ al-Khālī]. Correspondence in the file is between the Political Officer, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Muscat; the Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1948-27 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

659. IOR/R/15/2/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/638
Title:
‘File 25/2 Saudi-Yemen Treaty’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of four separate communications from the British Legation at Jedda, enclosing translated summaries and copies of the Treaty of Taif, agreed between the Saudi ruler ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), and the Yemeni ruler Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamī...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1934-11 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

660. IOR/R/15/2/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/160
Title:
File 1/A/38 IV Negotiations with Bin Saud re: Eastern Boundary of Saudi Arabia.
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations between the British and Saudi Arabian governments over the settlement of the eastern and south-eastern frontiers of Saudi Arabia, the importance of which was enhanced by the presence of oil in the areas concerned. The principal correspondents are: HM Minister, J...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1936-22 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (260 folios)