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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Bahrain Petroleum Company, Chief Local Representative, 1930-c 1971

1. 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)

2. IOR/R/15/2/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/409
Title:
File 10/2 The chief local representative - B.A.P.C.O.
Scope & Content:
The file contains documents and correspondence on the employment of a Chief Local Representative for the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) and on the temporary appointment of an American subject. The file contains a letter in Arabic from the Political Agent to the Sheikh of Bahrain, Sal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1945-15 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/389

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/389
Title:
File 10/1 II Bahrain Oil Concession
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams and correspondence exchanged between Major Frank Holmes, Chief Local Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), the Colonial Office, the Political Agent in Bahrain and the Political Resident. Most correspondence is about the discovery of oil in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1933-23 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 volume (246 folios)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)