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31. IOR/L/PS/12/1977

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1977
Title:
Coll 5/27 ‘Question of retention of right to use aerial bombing for police purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and newspaper extracts related to the right of nations to utilise aerial bombardment for internal police purposes. It covers the attitude of the Iraqi and Afghan governments towards the use of air power in, or adjacent to, their territory. There is also some exam...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1933-29 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

32. 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)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/1979

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1979
Title:
Coll 5/29 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Additional facilities at Koweit for RAF purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes regarding the reservation of land in Kuwait (also frequently spelt Koweit) for the potential future use of the Royal Air Force (RAF); the correspondence is prompted by fears that the Kuwait Oil Company may develop sites in connection with its oil conces...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1934-15 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (152 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/12/1980

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1980
Title:
Coll 5/30 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Procedure in connection with provision of civil aerodromes etc; Agreements between H.M.G. and local rulers along the Arabian Coast; Special authorisations’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and related notes on the drafting of general procedures for the provision of air facilities along the Arabian Coast Air Route, which would form the civil air agreements for Bahrain, Kuwait (also spelt Koweit), and Muscat. Numerous copies of the proposed draft agr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1933-30 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (393 folios)

35. 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)

36. 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)

37. IOR/L/PS/12/1983

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1983
Title:
Coll 5/32 ‘Air-route to India (Arab Coast): Possibility of establishing a landing ground on Das Island’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office, Harold Spencer Kerby of the Air Ministry, and Trenchard Craven William Fowle as the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It documents the decision not to proceed with using Das Island as an emergency landing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1934-29 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/12/1984

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1984
Title:
Coll 5/33 ‘Air-route to India: Landing ground at Gwadur; Muscat Civil Air Agreement’
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes and correspondence related to the use of the Gwadur Aerodrome by Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force. It also therefore covers the negotiations surrounding the Muscat Civil Air Agreement (1934), and subsequent amendments to modify the level of rent paid to the Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1933-5 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (360 folios)

39. 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)

40. 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)