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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

241. IOR/L/PS/12/3941

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3941
Title:
Coll 30/201 ‘Persian Gulf. Judicial. Service of documents upon British subjects in Bahrein Islands.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the service of petitions of alimony and divorce upon British subjects in Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file). The papers include correspondence, dated 1940, regarding an enquiry from the High Commissioner for Canada about the procedure in effecting s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1940-4 Sep 1947
Extent:

1 file (36 folios)

242. IOR/L/PS/12/3942

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3942
Title:
Coll 30/202 ‘Persian Gulf. Photographs of Notabilities (Sheikhs &c) (used for propaganda purposes)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the use of illustrations for propaganda purposes during the Second World War. It includes correspondence regarding a request from the Ministry of Information for photographs for the Middle East edition of a proposed fortnightly War P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1938-20 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

243. IOR/L/PS/12/3943

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3943
Title:
Coll 30/203 ‘Persian Gulf. Qatar – Proposed engagement of an “adviser on foreign affairs” by the sheikh.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to suspicions that Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar, desired to obtain an Iraqi adviser on foreign affairs, and objections to this by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the India Office, and the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1940-13 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

244. IOR/L/PS/12/3944

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3944
Title:
Coll 30/204 ‘Persian Gulf Oil. Future of oil in its relation to the Middle East – Admiralty Memorandum on –’
Scope & Content:
The file contains: a copy of an Admiralty memorandum, dated 11 October 1940, entitled ‘The Future of Oil in its Relation to the Middle East’; and correspondence related to the memorandum and to the arrival in Iran of eight German officers, who were suspected of being involved in activities again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1940-27 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (31 folios)

245. IOR/L/PS/12/3945

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3945
Title:
Coll 30/205 'Bahrein: U.S.A. Naval Observer at Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates to a request from the United States (US) Government in December 1940 for permission to appoint a Naval Observer to serve at Bahrain (generally referred to in the papers as Bahrein). The United States Government made their request to the Foreign Office in accordance with the term...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1940-24 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

246. IOR/L/PS/12/3946

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3946
Title:
Coll 30/206 'Bahrein Naval Wireless Station.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Naval Wireless Station at Bahrain. The papers include: correspondence from the India Office, the Admiralty, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf concerning the installation of a wireless receiving and transmitting set at the Jufair naval...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1940-8 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

247. IOR/L/PS/12/3947

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3947
Title:
Coll 30/207 'Bahrein oil: Changes in oil output from refinery at Bahrein and Ras Tanura. Lighterage difficulties & staffing problems of Gray Mackenzie and Co Ltd at Bahrein and Kuweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file covers various topics concerned with the oil industry at Bahrain, and the activities of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). The papers include: variations in the oil output of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, as a result of commercial and wartime conditions, 1940-42, including corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1940-16 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

248. IOR/L/PS/12/3948

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3948
Title:
Coll 30/208 'War Compensation & Insurance at BAHREIN'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the payment of war compensation and insurance as a result of enemy action, or action by the military authorities, at Bahrain (and, to a lesser extent, Kuwait). The issue arose in 1942 following representations to the British Government by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1941-3 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (224 folios)

249. IOR/L/PS/12/3949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3949
Title:
Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government measures to implement an oil denial scheme in the Persian Gulf, by asking oil companies operating in the region to temporarily plug, or permanently destroy existing oil wells, thus denying oil resources to the enemy [during the Second World War]. The oil well...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1942-15 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

250. IOR/L/PS/12/3950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3950
Title:
Coll 30/210 'Bahrein Oil: production of aviation fuel (100 octane) at Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a 100 octane aviation fuel production plant at the refinery of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain. The plant was to cost $18 million, and be 75% financed by the United States (US) Government. The papers cover: correspondence from the Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1938-15 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)