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201. IOR/R/15/6/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/409
Title:
File 12/3 II RAS-AL-HADD MAIL SERVICE PROPOSAL
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the improvement of the mail service in Muscat and Oman. Muscat was said in 1944 to have been 'ill supplied with mail facilities for many months, resulting in serious delays in delivery of official mail and excessive expenditure on telegrams' (folio 45). The commer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1943-16 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

202. IOR/R/15/6/413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/413
Title:
File 12/10 Post Office - Muscat & Gwadur
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal services at Muscat and Gwadar. The arrangements for postal services in the territories of Muscat and Oman were complicated from 1947 by the independence of India, and the transfer of responsibility for postal services from the Government of India to the Political Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1945-29 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (208 folios)

203. IOR/R/15/6/437

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/437
Title:
File 14/4 RED OXIDE AT QURIYAT' [Qurayyāt]
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning a sample of ore taken from Quriyat [Qurayyāt]. The file includes a chemical analysis report (folio10). The correspondents are include: the Political Agent, Muscat (Reginald Graham Hinde); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Arthur Prescott Trevor); and the Lab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1924-11 Mar 1924
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

204. IOR/R/15/6/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/102
Title:
‘File 2/22 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (3L) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Sur.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the possibility of establishing a landing ground at Sur for the Royal Air Force (RAF), which was to be within easy access of the town. The proposal was dropped later owing to the Sultan’s unwillingness and the risk of creating trouble at Sur. The file ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1934-26 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

205. IOR/R/15/6/395

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/395
Title:
File [11/4] Salute by H.H. The Sultan To Political Officers When Leaving and Returning to Muscat
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Britain's Political Agency in Muscat and the Council of Ministers of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman regarding arrangements for the firing of a gun salute upon the return of the Political Agent to Muscat. The correspondence is in Arabic accompanied by En...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1926-12 May 1927
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

206. IOR/R/15/6/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/163
Title:
File 6/27 Foreign Interests: Sa'udi-Yemen Dispute
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the Saudi-Yemen War of 1934 covering its outbreak, key developments and its cessation with the Taif Treaty. The majority of this correspondence consists of updates on the war that were sent from the British Legation in Jeddah to Britain's various Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1934-26 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)

207. IOR/R/15/6/432

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/432
Title:
File 14/2 Vol. I Gwadar oil
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to an oil concession in Gwadur [Gwadar] which formed part of the territories of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and dependencies. The discussion in the volume includes: The application by the Burmah Oil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1937-19 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 volume (247 folios)

208. IOR/R/15/6/317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/317
Title:
File 9/20 Naval and Shipping: Infringement of Muscat territorial waters by Persian Navy
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the question of Iranian rights to search foreign vessels outside their territorial waters. The papers cover the report of such an incident involving dhows from Dubai and the interdepartmental discussion of what rights the Iranians have and what action should be taken sho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1937-22 Apr 1938
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

209. IOR/R/15/6/282, f 57 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/282, f 57 1
Title:
Photograph of Sugar Cane, Rizat Irrigation System
Scope & Content:
Photograph of sugar cane crops, at the Rizat [Razāt] irrigation system, in Dhofar, Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. This photograph is part of a series of photographs that appear at the end of a preliminary report on the land resources of Dhofar, produced by Brian Joseph Hartley, Director of Agric...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 photograph

210. IOR/R/15/6/282, f 58 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/282, f 58 1
Title:
Photograph of a Palm Tree at Hamran
Scope & Content:
Photograph of a two-and-a-half-year-old palm tree, in the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] garden at Hamran, Dhofar, in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. This photograph is part of a series of photographs that appear at the end of a preliminary report on the land resou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948
Extent:
1 photograph