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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject River navigation Name Board of Trade, 1786-1970

1. IOR/L/PS/10/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271
Title:
File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)