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Project / Collection India Office Records Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/10 Subject River navigation

1. IOR/L/PS/10/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271
Title:
File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/272
Title:
File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and draft agreements relating to the establishment of the Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission in Ottoman Iraq. The files discuss the Commission's proposed functions on regulating trade and traffic at the Shatt al Arab estuary, but mostly discuss the governing conv...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 file (321 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/414
Title:
File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence that relates to the same topic, namely a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Sep 1913-21 Jul 1914
Extent:

1 volume (237 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/804
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 2 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVER CRAFT (1919.)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence on the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia, exchanged between 9 May and 20 December 1919, after the conclusion of the First World War. It contains material relating to: The centralisation of the disposal of all small miscellaneous craft in the Ministry of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1919-20 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)