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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1947-2060 Name Commonwealth Relations Office, 1947-1966

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1961

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1961
Title:
Coll 5/16 ‘Air Route to India: Occasional landings at Koweit – Agreements between the Sheikh of Koweit and British Overseas Airways Corporation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding civil aviation matters in Kuwait (also spelt Koweit in the file). The primary focus is the negotiation of a Civil Air Agreement between the British Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1932-25 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (272 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1962
Title:
Coll 5/16(1) ‘Landing Fees at Koweit’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the collection of landing fees from Kuwait (also spelled Koweit) Aerodrome, and the subsequent credit of these fees to the Ministry of Civil Aviation. It includes a protest from Iraqi Airways requesting a review of these landing fees, due to the lack of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1947-24 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1975

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1975
Title:
Coll 5/25 ’Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Bahrain Civil Air Agreement – Landing Ground at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from R Dewhurst, Director of Accounts in the Commonwealth Relations Office, addressed to the Manager of the Eastern Bank Limited. It details the sums due to the Shaikh of Bahrain under the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement for the lease of the aerodrome and services operated ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1981
Title:
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of private flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes on the subject of private (or chartered) flights through the Persian Gulf states in special treaty relations with the British Government, these states being: Bahrain, Kuwait (also spelt Koweit), Muscat (Oman), and Sharjah. Prior to 1946, the corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Jun 1933-3 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (622 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1982

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1982
Title:
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of Private Flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence (mainly telegrams) on two subjects. One subject is proposals for charter flights between Aden and Bombay by Ethiopian Airways, on behalf of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The other subject is the development of Czechoslovak civil aviation and Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1948-19 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1985

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1985
Title:
Coll 5/33(2) ‘AIR ROUTE TO INDIA: MUSCAT CIVIL AIR AGREEMENT (NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEW AGREEMENT)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes related to negotiations between the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, for a new Civil Air Agreement; Britain's aviation rights in Oman during the Second World War (1939-1945) had depended on a War Subsid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1945-2 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1988

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1988
Title:
Coll 5/35 ‘Sale of Auster Aircraft by Govt of India to Govt of Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams related to the sale of ten Auster aircraft by the Government of India to the Government of Iraq; communication between the Indian and Iraqi governments is facilitated by the British Embassy in Baghdad. The file documents a delay in the release of these aircraft as a r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1948-12 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1989

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1989
Title:
Coll 5/35(1) ‘APPOINTMENT OF CIVIL AIR ATTACHÉ BAGDAD (WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSIAN GULF)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the appointment of Beverley Gayer Barnard (1916-1973) as Civil Air Attaché at Baghdad, and the extension of his remit to cover the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Sir William Rupert Ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1947-8 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2000

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2000
Title:
Coll 5/47 ‘Persia and the Persian Gulf: Bushire and Bandar Abbas’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence documenting a proposal from the British Embassy at Tehran that the meteorological stations at Bushire and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] should be shut down, and subsequent consultation with the Government of India and Pakistan via the officers of the UK High Com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1947-17 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2011

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2011
Title:
Coll 5/55(2) ‘AFGHANISTAN: SUPPLY OF AIRCRAFT TO THE AFGHAN GOVNT. SUPPLY OF SPARE PARTS’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small quantity of correspondence related to obtaining payment for ten Hawker Hind propellers supplied to the Afghan Air Force by the Air Ministry – via the Government of India – in 1946. The main correspondents are the Air Ministry and the Commonwealth Relations Office. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1948-1 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)