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671. IOR/R/15/2/753

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/753
Title:
‘File 28/61 War. BAPCO and A.I.O.C. – Attitude of employees regarding enlistment in armed forces at outbreak of war’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to the appointment of employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) as special police officers, to be engaged as part of BAPCO’s oil refinery defence scheme in time of war. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1939-2 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

672. IOR/R/15/2/344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/344
Title:
File 9/3 Indian business interests in Bahrain and the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning how to improve the Indian trade in the Gulf and how to increase it to the detriment of the Japanese trade, providing that India can supply similar goods at competitive prices. The file contains info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

673. IOR/R/15/2/616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/616
Title:
File 22/3 SULTAN bin SAQR, SHAIKH OF SHARJAH - Questions Affecting Him
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly between British officials in the Persian Gulf, discussing the actions of Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, the Ruler of Sharjah and his relations with neighbouring Arab Chiefs of the Trucial Coast, 1933 to 1939. There is also a small amount of correspondence about ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1933-15 Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

674. IOR/R/15/2/661

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/661
Title:
‘File 28/1 K I Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the military defence of Bahrain’s oil refineries and oil fields during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1939-3 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (340 folios)

675. IOR/R/15/2/676

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/676
Title:
‘File 28/3 War. Security Intelligence Section. Movements and Activities of Enemy Agents.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to intelligence assessments made of a host of individuals whose background, actions, or suspected pro-Axis Power sympathies prompt British officials to pursue further enquiries into them. Principal correspondents in the file include members of the intel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1939-1 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (160 folios)

676. IOR/R/15/2/679

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/679
Title:
‘File 28/5 I Export licences for shipments of oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to oil exports made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and to a lesser extent the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), and the need for regulation of oil exports during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1939-26 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)

677. IOR/R/15/2/750

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/750
Title:
‘File 28/57-III Volunteers for National Service: Conscription of Labour, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the introduction and application of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939). The Regulation stipulated that British subjects employed at the Bahrain Petroleu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1941-20 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (254 folios)

678. IOR/R/15/2/766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/766
Title:
‘File 29/3i Food Supplies – Food Control and Rationing & GENERAL’
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about food rationing and price controls in Bahrain during the Second World War (1939-1945). The supply and distribution of staple foods such as rice, wheat, barley, flour, sugar, tea and coffee to the population of Bahrain are discussed and to a lesser extent, other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1942-28 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (288 folios)

679. IOR/R/15/2/792

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/792
Title:
File 29/31 Matches from India for Bahrain, Trucial Coast & Qatar
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of matches from India to Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, for local consumption, under Government of India export licensing controls and import quotas imposed during and after the Second World War (1939-1945), when matches and oth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1943-11 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

680. IOR/R/15/2/871

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/871
Title:
File 38/16 Effects of Bahrain-Qatar dispute on P. C. L.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to how the dispute between Bahrain and Qatar over Zubarah has affected the work of Petroleum Concessions Limited. The principle correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; Sir Charles Belgrave, Advisor to the Government of Bahrain; Shaikh Sulman ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1944-22 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)