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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/2171-2221 Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2177
Title:
Coll 7/8 'Afghanistan: import of arms by private traders; import of sporting guns'
Scope & Content:
The file contains requests to import arms and ammunition to Afghanistan via India, received from the Afghan Government. It also contains related correspondence regarding export licences, formal procedures, and arrangements for the transport of arms, conducted between: the Karachi Collector of Cu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1931-11 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2178
Title:
Coll 7/9 'Export of arms to China'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding requests for war materials received from the Chinese Government in Nanking [Nanjing]. Correspondence dated 1932 concerns enquiries received from the Commonwealth Governments in Australia and Canada, asking for information on the British position reg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1932-25 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2179
Title:
Coll 7/10 'China (Yunnan): Export of arms to China via Burma'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request from the Governor of Yunnan Province to transport arms, ammunition and planes to China via Burma [Myanmar]. The materials consisted of British surplus war stock, and were supplied by Arnhold & Company Limited. The correspondence is between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1932-6 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2182
Title:
Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provision...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Aug 1926-28 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 volume (591 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2184

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2184
Title:
Coll 7/16 'Policy of HMG re: disposal of arms to foreign countries'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, minutes and memoranda regarding the policy of the British Government towards the sale of surplus war material to foreign countries, in light of the Cabinet decision to prohibit sales (29 October 1930) and the British Defence Rearmament Programme. The India Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1929-9 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2187
Title:
Coll 7/19 'Afghanistan: supply of machinery for the manufacture of ammunition'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the supply of machinery and raw materials to the Afghan Government, intended for the manufacture of ammunition. The principal correspondents are: the Foreign Office; the India Office Political Department; the Board of Trade Imports and Exports Licensing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1924-25 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (109 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2188
Title:
Coll 7/20 'System of licensing exports of arms and ammunition'
Scope & Content:
The file contains minutes, correspondence and reports regarding changes made by the British Government to the system for licensing the export of arms and ammunition to foreign countries. The India Office participated in the process to ensure that requests from the Governments of Afghanistan and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Portuguese
Date Range:
13 Apr 1933-14 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2192
Title:
Coll 7/24 'Arabia: supply of munitions of war to King Ibn Saud and Imam of Yemen'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Sa'ūd and the Imam of Yemen, in the context of the British policy not to favour either side in their territorial dispute. The principal correspondents are the India Office, the War Office, the Foreign Office, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1933-24 Sep 1936
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2193
Title:
Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following: the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2194
Title:
Coll 7/26 'Afghanistan: proposed purchase of gas shells, etc., by Afghan Government; question of attitude of HMG'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding a request by the Government of Afghanistan to import a sample teargas gun, canisters and accessories to Kabul, via India. The file concerns arrangements for the purchase and delivery of the sample, plus British and Indian concerns over the potential import or manufacture...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1932-8 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)