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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Andrew Weir Group, 1885- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/10/154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/154
Title:
File 3175/1908 'Persian Gulf:- Hormuz Oxide.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over the rights of British firms to exploit Hormuz oxide (red oxide of iron) mined on the island of Hormuz. The concession to mine the red oxide there was held, and later lost by Haji Agha Mohamed, Muin-ut-Tujjar (also spelled Mouin and Moin) [Haji Agha Muhammad, M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Oct 1907-5 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (479 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/847/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/847/3
Title:
File 4613/1919 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia:- Land Policy. Messrs Weir's purchase of sites at Basra.'
Scope & Content:
This item consists of part three of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq], particularly in relation to Andrew Weir and Company's efforts to purchase two properties in Basrah (also referred to as Busreh in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1919-22 Apr 1920
Extent:

1 item (23 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/788

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/788
Title:
Ext 329/43(2) ‘SHIPMENT OF DATES TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of dates to the Persian Gulf States – Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Trucial Coast – via a co-ordinated purchasing scheme in Iraq operated by the Ministry of Food through their agents Andrew Weir and Company. The main correspondents are as follows: the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1943-5 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/785
Title:
‘File 29/25 DATES QUOTA – 1944-’45 FOR BAHRAIN AND TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about a British Ministry of Food scheme in 1944 for ensuring a controlled supply of Iraqi dates at reasonable prices to the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), because local date crops were insufficient and imported dates were subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1944-24 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)