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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1947-2060 Name HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1930- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1947

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1947
Title:
Coll 5/1 ‘Persian Gulf Air Routes: Hasa Coast & Flying over Nejd territory — Saudi regulations for the landing of foreign aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and papers related to negotiations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia for the establishment of emergency landing grounds along the Hasa Coast, and proposed arrangements for their maintenance. The intention was that these facilities ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1931-3 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (281 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1950
Title:
Coll 5/5 ‘Arabia: Hejaz Air Force; Recruitment of personnel by HMG; Instruction of Hejazi pilots’
Scope & Content:
The file covers the subject of the development of aviation in Hejaz (Saudi Arabia from 1932), and requests made to the British Government for assistance in the development of an air force. The earliest papers (1931) deal with a crisis in the Hejaz Air Force, in which the Hejaz Government desire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1931-14 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (350 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1969

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1969
Title:
Coll 5/23 ‘Alleged violation of the Saudi Arabian frontier by British aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to incidents involving British aircraft in, or in the vicinity of, Saudi Arabia – Hejaz and Nejd prior to 1932; the incidents predominantly take the form of forced landings by aircraft of either the Royal Air Force (RAF) or of Imperial Airways. The corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1930-29 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 file (276 folios)