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251. IOR/L/PS/12/3956

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3956
Title:
Coll 30/213 'U.S. Desire to Establish Consulate at Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a request from the Government of the United States of America (US, USA) to the British Government in 1943 to be allowed to open a consulate at Bahrain, in view of the construction of additional oil refining facilities at Bahrain, and a consequent increase in the numbers of Amer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1943-9 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (243 folios)

252. IOR/L/PS/12/3957

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3957
Title:
Coll 30/214 'Defence Regulation no 2 of 1942: Breach of Regulation. Case of N. F. Boyle.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the case of Norman Forbes Boyle, an employee of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, who, it was alleged, had breached Persian Gulf Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942 by leaving his employment without permission, and returning to his home in Northern Ireland. The que...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1943-25 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (184 folios)

253. IOR/L/PS/12/3958

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3958
Title:
Coll 30/215 'Pay of Interpreters in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Government of India concerning a request by the Resident to upgrade the pay of certain First Interpreters in the Vernacular cadre of the Persian Gulf Residency: namely, those at Muscat, Kuwait, and Khorra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1943-9 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

254. IOR/L/PS/12/3959

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3959
Title:
Coll 30/216 'Development of oil supplies in the Middle East.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning the British Government's decision in 1943 to sanction an increase in oil production in the Middle East. The papers include: the agreement of the military authorities, 1943; papers of the War Cabinet Oil Control Board, November 1943 (including approval for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1943-12 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

255. IOR/L/PS/12/3960

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3960
Title:
Coll 30/217 'American Oil Mission to Middle East (Anglo-U.S. Oil Agreement).'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the United States (US) Government-sanctioned Oil Mission to the Middle East, 1943, and subsequent talks between delegations sponsored by the British and US Governments, which led to the publication of the Anglo-US Oil Agreement in 1944, the purpose of which was to manage intern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1943-27 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (351 folios)

256. IOR/L/PS/12/3961

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3961
Title:
Coll 30/217(1) 'Trans-Arabian Pipe Line (Persian Gulf - to Mediterranean)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns oil company proposals for the construction of a Trans-Arabian oil pipeline between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. The file largely consists of papers relating to Trans-Jordan and Palestine, and to a lesser extent, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (including correspondence from t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1945-9 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (152 folios)

257. IOR/L/PS/12/3962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3962
Title:
Coll 30/218 'Employment of foreigners by Bahrein Petroleum Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates solely to a request from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for permission to employ some French Canadians as additional operators. Permission for the request was granted by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The file includes a divider, which gives a list of corres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1943-2 Dec 1943
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

258. IOR/L/PS/12/3963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3963
Title:
Coll 30/219 'Affairs in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, reports, and intelligence summaries, sent to the India Office, and later the Foreign Office, concerning affairs in Qatar. The reports refer frequently to the 'unsatisfactory' state of internal affairs in Qatar. The papers include: reports by the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1941-7 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

259. IOR/L/PS/12/3964

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3964
Title:
Coll 30/220 'Kuwait: General Relations with'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Kuwait affairs. The papers include a report dated 9 May 1944, by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior, on a visit to Kuwait. The report includes details of conversations between Prior and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1944-13 Jan 1945
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

260. IOR/L/PS/12/3965A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3965A
Title:
Coll 30/221 'Banking facilities in Bahrein and Saudi-Arabia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals by various commercial banks for the extension of banking facilities in the Persian Gulf. The file particularly relates to Saudi Arabia, Bahrein [Bahrain], Dubai, Muscat and Oman, and Qatar. The India Office were keen to ensure that banking in the Persian Gulf remained...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1944-16 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (162 folios)