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Project / Collection India Office Records Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1945-1953

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1194A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1194A
Title:
Ext 392/47 'Persian Gulf: Bristol Freighter demonstration tour to Middle East, including Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters and notes. The letters are regarding the demonstration tour given by Airwork Limited of a Bristol Freighter aircraft in Europe and in the Middle East during March and April 1947. One of the letters has attached the itinerary of the tour in Europe and in the Middle Ea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1947-21 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1973

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1973
Title:
Coll 5/25 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Landing Ground at Bahrain; Bahrain Civil Air Agreement; Cessation of "C" class service’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the provision of civil air services to Bahrain. It therefore covers a range of related topics such as the amendment and renewal of the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement, money due to the Ruler of Bahrain under the agreement, amendments to landing fees, aviat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1945-26 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (173 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1974

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1974
Title:
Coll 5/25(1) ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Bahrain & Koweit Civil Air Agreements; Morton's Air Services Ltd’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with flights by Morton's Airlines over the Arabian Coast route, and an amendment to article three of the Bahrain and Kuwait Civil Air Agreements removing the words 'by the Sheikh'. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Ministry of Civil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jun 1946-20 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2047

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2047
Title:
Coll 5/84(2) ‘Chicago Agreement: Position of Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms with regard to post war Civil Aviation; International Civil Aviation Organisation Meeting in Cairo 1946. Tandy's Deputation.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the position of the Gulf States – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Bahrain, Dubai, Kalba, Kuwait, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaywayn – under the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1946), also known as the Chicago Convention. Much of the correspondence is c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1945-20 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (431 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2049

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2049
Title:
Coll 5/84(4) ‘Middle East Summaries from Ministry of Civil Aviation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of Ministry of Civil Aviation Middle East Intelligence Summaries – Numbers 1 to 8 – which have been supplied to the India Office. The summaries cover independent countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia), sovereignties previously u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1946-6 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2050

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2050
Title:
Coll 5/84(4A) ‘Eastern Summaries from Ministry of Civil Aviation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of Ministry of Civil Aviation Eastern Intelligence Summaries – Numbers 1 to 2 – which have been supplied to the India Office. The summaries cover independent countries (China including Manchuria, Thailand, and the Philippine Commonwealth), countries under the influence o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1947-16 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2052

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2052
Title:
Coll 5/85 ‘Airfield at Dharan for U.S.A.A.F.: Proposal to construct new airport at Bahrain (Hamala)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with proposals for the construction of an airfield – suitable for very heavy bombers – at Dhahran by the United States Army Air Transport Command as a wartime necessity, and applications from the United States to the United Kingdom for the latters support in obtaining permi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1944-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)