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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/10 Name Robert Wönckhaus and Company, 1890s-Early 20th century Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/127
Title:
File 161/1908 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa Oxide.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the disputed concession for the mining of red oxide on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá]. The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Viceroy. The pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
14 Dec 1907-3 Jun 1908
Extent:
1 volume (377 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/128
Title:
File 161/1908 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa Oxide'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the export of red oxide mined on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá]. The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Viceroy. The papers cover: contract...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 May 1908-16 Nov 1909
Extent:

1 volume (195 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/129
Title:
File 161/1908 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa oxide'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the export of red oxide mined on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá]. The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the First Assistant Resident in charge of the Political Residency (Major Arthur Prescott Trevor); the Political Resid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
16 Nov 1910-15 Dec 1911
Extent:

1 volume (480 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/318
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the mining of red oxide on the island of Abū Mūsá in the Persian Gulf, before and after the First World War. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Oct 1912-15 May 1923
Extent:
1 volume (277 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/319A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/319A
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf: Abu Musa Oxide Concession; Sir P Cox's enquiry whether German papers seized at Bushire should be sent to the FO'
Scope & Content:
File contains the enquiry from Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. as to whether to send to the Foreign Office, London, the papers seized from the German Consulate relating to the Abu Musa oxide concession held by the German company, Wönkhaus. Correspondence between the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (7 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/320

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/320
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 3 ‘Abu Musa Wönckhaus Lingah’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the German Consulate at Buschär [Bushire] (Helmuth Listemann) and others: the Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] representative of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus and Company (Herr H Rosenfeld; Herr Krumpeter); the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Percy Zac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
22 Nov 1907-Nov 1912
Extent:

1 file (402 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/321

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/321
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 4 ‘Abu Musa – Angelegenheit. 1907.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the German Consulate at Buschär [Bushire] (Helmuth Listemann) and others: the Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh] representative of the German firm Robert Wönckhaus and Company (Herr H Rosenfeld; Herr Krumpeter); the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, and Persian
Date Range:
23 Oct 1907-20 Nov 1908
Extent:
1 file (263 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/322
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 5 Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide
Scope & Content:
The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 4949/1912 Pt 4 ‘Abu Musa – Angelegenheit. 1907.’ (IOR/L/PS/10/321), containing correspondence exchanged between the German Consulate at Buschär [Bushire] (Helmuth Listemann; Wilhelm Wassmuss) and others: the British Government; the Lingah [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
10 Feb 1909-13 Jan 1913
Extent:
1 file (296 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1-2 ‘Persian Gulf: German Competition’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with growing German competition to British trade in the Persian Gulf, and discussions around possible responses from the British authorities to protect Britain's trade and geopolitical interests. In particular, it is concerned with the joint workings of the Hamburg-America ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 May 1912-1 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/528
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 1 'German War: banks at Basra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other India Office papers relating to banks in Basra [Basrah or Bassorah or Busreh] during the First World War. It includes papers relating to: Whether or not Basra was classed as ‘enemy territory’, and whether the London Agency of the Imperial Ottoman Bank ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-31 May 1917
Extent:

1 volume (204 folios)