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

41. IOR/R/15/2/740

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/740
Title:
‘File 28/45 Oil field personnel for war purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence concerning the deployment and retention of oil company personnel for war purposes, and includes: correspondence dated October and November 1942, relating to a request forwarded from H S Bowlby of the Petroleum Department, London, to the Political Agent ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1942-14 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

42. IOR/R/15/2/748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/748
Title:
‘File 28/57 I Volunteers for national service’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises applications made by individuals in Bahrain (chiefly employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO) to undertake military service in time of war, and correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1939-23 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 volume (337 folios)

43. IOR/R/15/2/749

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/749
Title:
‘File 28/57 II Volunteers for national service’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises applications made by individuals in Bahrain (chiefly employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO) for emergency commission to the military forces, and correspondence concerning official policy towards volunteers for military duty, and proposals for the introduction in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Feb 1930-2 Feb 1942
Extent:

1 volume (351 folios)

44. IOR/R/15/2/750

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/750
Title:
‘File 28/57-III Volunteers for National Service: Conscription of Labour, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the introduction and application of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939). The Regulation stipulated that British subjects employed at the Bahrain Petroleu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1941-20 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (254 folios)

45. IOR/R/15/2/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/751
Title:
‘File 28/57-IV Industrial conscription’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the status of employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) (and to a lesser extent Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) and Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ)), in relation to Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1942-28 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (397 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/753

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/753
Title:
‘File 28/61 War. BAPCO and A.I.O.C. – Attitude of employees regarding enlistment in armed forces at outbreak of war’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to the appointment of employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) as special police officers, to be engaged as part of BAPCO’s oil refinery defence scheme in time of war. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1939-2 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/2/799

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/799
Title:
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP BRITISH TANKERS IN THE SUEZ CANAL
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the possibility of an attempt to blow up British tankers in the Suez Canal by means of bringing up a small boat alongside. The Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf communicated this to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent, Bahrain, and R M Brown, C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1947-18 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/2/827

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/827
Title:
File 32/24 Customs and Police Post at Sitra
Scope & Content:
This file contains two letters regarding Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah's desire to construct a Customs and Police Post on the island of Sitra. In the first letter (folio 3), Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain asks R M Brown, the Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1948-11 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

49. IOR/R/15/2/1637

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1637
Title:
‘File 18/6 III Buildings. Special Repairs’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of papers, mostly correspondence, cost estimates, and invoices, mainly relating to cost estimates and payments, for works to be carried out to the Political Agency building and compound in Bahrain. It includes papers relating to the following: The shipping of sanitary fittings...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1938-14 Nov 1940
Extent:

1 file (260 folios)

50. IOR/R/15/2/1646

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1646
Title:
‘File 18/14 II Air Conditioning of Bahrain Agency.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to air conditioning for the Political Agency, Bahrain, and the Assistant Political Agent’s house. It includes correspondence regarding the purchase and installation of an air conditioning unit at the Political Agency, repairs to the air c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1947-23 Sep 1950
Extent:

1 file (147 folios)