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6411. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 51
Title:
Photograph of a truck with trailer travelling on a dirt or sand track. Photographer unknown.
Scope & Content:
Subject Matter: The photograph shows a six-wheel flatbed truck, with four-wheel trailer attached, used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The truck is moving along a dirt or sand track, and is seen from the front, possibly from the rear window of another mov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 b&w silver-gelatin print

6412. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 52
Title:
Photograph of a truck with trailer travelling on a dirt or sand track. Photographer unknown.
Scope & Content:
Subject Matter: The photograph shows a six-wheel flatbed truck, with four-wheel trailer attached, used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The truck is moving along a dirt or sand track, and is seen from behind, possibly from the rear window of another moving...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 b&w silver-gelatin print

6413. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 53
Title:
‘Comparative tire [tyre] sections used on Fords in Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The diagram shows tire [tyre] sections of Ford trucks used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, for the following tyre makes and models: Goodyear Air Wheel; Dunlop; Royal Atlas; Firestone (English); Goodrich Silvertown (American, spelt Slivertown in the diagram). The d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 diagram

6414. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 59
Title:
‘Comparative tire [tyre] sections used on Fords in Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The diagram shows tire [tyre] sections of Ford trucks used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, for the following tyre makes and models: Goodyear Air Wheel; Dunlop; Royal Atlas; Firestone (English); Goodrich Silvertown (American, spelt Slivertown in the diagram). The d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 diagram

6415. IOR/R/15/2/661, f 310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/661, f 310
Title:
‘Refinery tankage – proposed method for brick sheathing’
Scope & Content:
Blueprint plan showing a cross-section and elevation of a proposed method of construction for the brick sheathing of oil refinery tanks at the Bahrain Petroleum Refinery in Bahrain. The plan uses imperial measurements. In the lower left corner, the plan is indicated as having been drawn on 26 A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 blueprint plan

6416. IOR/R/15/2/662, f 86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662, f 86
Title:
‘Refinery tankage – proposed method for brick sheathing’
Scope & Content:
Blueprint plan showing a cross-section and elevation of a proposed method of construction for the brick sheathing of oil refinery tanks at the Bahrain Petroleum Refinery in Bahrain. The plan uses imperial measurements. In the lower left corner, the plan is indicated as having been drawn on 26 A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1942-27 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 blueprint plan

6417. IOR/R/15/2/662, f 115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662, f 115
Title:
‘Xmas Tree’
Scope & Content:
The diagram shows a cross-section of a configuration of valves and other fittings at the top of an oil well, commonly referred to as a Christmas tree. The diagram is labelled ‘fig.3’, and is part of a number of other figures (1, 2, 4 and 5) which are included on a blueprint plan also in the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 diagram

6418. IOR/R/15/2/662, f 117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662, f 117
Title:
‘Methods of destroying tubing in oil wells’
Scope & Content:
The diagram, marked ‘Secret’ comprises a number of figures, all cross-sections, numbered as follows: 1. Cone & ball device 2. Tubing bomb 4. & 5. Wedging rollers Figure 3 (Xmas Tree) is on f 115. Each of the figures is annotated and marked with imperial measurements. In the lower l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1942-6 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 blueprint diagram

6419. IOR/R/15/2/736, f 13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/736, f 13
Title:
‘Iraq and Persia’
Scope & Content:
The map indicates British military boundaries in Iraq and Persia [Iran], in the wake of the military reorganisation carried out in the region, as described in the letter from Tenth Army HQ, dated 23 July 1942, to which the map was attached in the file (ff 6-8). The map indicates: inter-army boun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1942
Extent:

1 map

6420. IOR/R/15/2/739, f 8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/739, f 8
Title:
Sketch of the site of a motorcycle accident
Scope & Content:
The sketch is of an aerial view of a road outside Manama, Bahrain (Belgrave road) on which a motorcycle accident occurred on 15 October 1942. The sketch accompanies a report of the accident, written by the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, addressed to the Politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1942
Extent:
1 sketch