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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1947-2060 Place Sharjah, Arabian Peninsula, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1964

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1964
Title:
Coll 5/18 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Use of landing grounds by foreign aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, and related India Office notes, regarding the Arabian Coast air route linking Europe and Asia. In particular, it is concerned with Britain's policy over restricting access to this route to non-British aircraft. It contains applications from the Governments of Fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Aug 1932-20 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (544 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1965

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1965
Title:
Coll 5/19 ‘Air Route to India: Sharjah Rest House – Payment and accounting arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the financing and construction of a rest house at Sharjah for the use of the passengers of Imperial Airways. It contains correspondence authorising expenditure, outlining the procedure to be followed for making payments, and reporting on the progress of construction. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1932-5 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1966
Title:
Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal India Office notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1932-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (636 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1978

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1978
Title:
Coll 5/28 ‘Air Route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Debai Air Agreement’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes related to air facilities required by Imperial Airways (from 1940 the British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) along the Arabian Coast. The file therefore contains a number of lists (some of which are categorised by pri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1933-30 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (465 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1986

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1986
Title:
Coll 5/34 ‘Meteorological Stations in Persian Gulf: Bahrain & Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and related notes on the provision of accommodation in the Sharjah Rest House for observers of the Indian Meteorological Department; the observers at Sharjah were to be transferred from Muscat. It also contains some discussion over the future of the observatories...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1934-18 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2030

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2030
Title:
Coll 5/68 ‘Air route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Security of the Air Route; emergency landing arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the security of the Arab Coast Air Route, used by both Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force (RAF). The majority of the file is devoted to proposals made by Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in his letter da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1939-11 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2042

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2042
Title:
Coll 5/80 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Route: Sharjah Air Agreement & additional accommodation for the B.A.O.C.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the renewal of the Sharjah Commercial Air Agreement in 1943, and subsequent increases to the subsidy paid to the Shaikh of Sharjah under the agreement and changes to accommodation requirements for both the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and the Ro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1943-15 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (126 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2043

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2043
Title:
Coll 5/81 ‘Facilities for U.S. Air Transport Corps at Bahrein and Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the provision of facilities for the United States Air Transport Command at both Bahrain and Sharjah. This includes policy and strategy discussions over how best to maintain British control of the Arabian Coast Air Route; British planners feared that the United...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1943-9 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (144 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2044

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2044
Title:
Coll 5/82 ‘Facilities for U.S. Transport Corps at Sharjah; Posting of U.S. Provost Personnel for & maintenance of Discipline’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small number of papers related to a suggestion, made by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in a telegram dated 15 August 1944 (folio 11), for the appointment of Provost (military police) personnel to maintain discipline among the increasing number of United States Arm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1944-3 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)