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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Bahrain Petroleum Company, Chief Local Representative, 1930-c 1971

31. IOR/R/15/2/682

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/682
Title:
‘File 28/5 IV Licenses for Export of Oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to requests made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for licences to export petroleum products from Bahrain during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield; Major Tom Hick...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1943-31 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (399 folios)

32. IOR/R/15/2/683

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/683
Title:
‘File 28/5 VI Licenses for export of oil from Bahrain.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises requests made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for licences to export petroleum products from Bahrain, sent by the Chief Local Representative for Bahrain (J O Fifer during 1945; R M Brown during 1946) to the Political Agency. Each of the export licence requests, which...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1945-14 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (392 folios)

33. IOR/R/15/2/697

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/697
Title:
‘File 28/10-(f) Italian on board “Helka”’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the presence on board the tanker Helka, sailing from Aden to Bahrain, of an Italian, whom British officials instruct should not be allowed to land at Bahrain. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the Chief...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1940-10 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/2/699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/699
Title:
‘File 28/13 Black out and A.R.P. [Air Raid Precaution] measures in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, copies of official notices and regulations, and other papers, relating to air raid precautions and passive air defence measures taken in Bahrain throughout the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 May 1940-22 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/2/700

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/700
Title:
‘File 28/14 War. Ship warrant scheme’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the implementation of a Ship’s Warrant Scheme by the Government of India, intended to restrict access to British port facilities during wartime to vessels that are either British, or belong to the British Commonwealth, the United Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1940-16 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/2/701

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/701
Title:
‘File 28/14-Annexe. Ship warrants (routine file).’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the issue of ship’s warrants and other shipping regulations applicable to oil tankers passing through Bahrain during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1940-24 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/2/718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/718
Title:
‘File 28/28-(i) Military requirements (purchases etc. for the army)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the acquisition of oil industry equipment and supplies from the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for use by British military headquarters at Basra, Iraq (later referr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-29 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (305 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/2/719

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/719
Title:
‘File 28/28-(ii) Military requirements. Purchases from oil companies. Coke’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to: i) the export of petroleum industry equipment from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) at Al Khobar [Al-Khubar], including: baker cement retainers to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1942-5 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/2/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/725
Title:
‘File 28/33 Compensation & war risk insurance’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and other papers related to questions concerning: a) the liability of oil companies (specifically the Bahrain Petroleum Company, or BAPCO) to pay compensation to employees injured by enemy action or while undertaking war service, and b) the risks to oil company ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1942-24 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (99 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/2/734

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/734
Title:
‘File 28/39 Emergency Commissions’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to emergency military commission (also referred to as the King’s Emergency Commission), and applications made by employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Government of Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1939-28 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)