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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Board of Trade, 1786-1970

1. IOR/L/PS/12/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/79
Title:
PZ 4668/33 'Turkish Petroleum Concessions'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the 1914 oil concession granted to the Turkish Petroleum Company, which became the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1929. The primary correspondent is H P W Giffard, Petroleum Department, Board of Trade.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B412

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B412
Title:
Persian Coasting Trade (Communicated by the Board of Trade)
Scope & Content:
Memorandum concerning treaty rights of British ships in Persia. It covers the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1920 and its repercussions on the coasting trade; it highlights how other powers that have treaties with Great Britain have the right to partake in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/860

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/860
Title:
Ext 5263/43 'Despatch of goods to Persian Gulf: Parcel Post'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding licences andformalities required to export goods to the Persian Gulf. The primarycorrespondents are: India Office; Board of Trade; Ministry of War Transport. Folios 4-13 cover enquiries from the companies Johnson &Johnson, J A Afriat, and Gordon &a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1943-29 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/157
Title:
PZ 4604/35 'Persian Law of Arbitration'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a new Persian Law of Arbitration passed by the Majlis in its session of 17 February 1935. It consists of correspondence sent to the Board of Trade by George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department, Foreign Office, and a despatch from Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1935-Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/109
Title:
File 442/1907 'Persian Gulf: British and German shipping; German competition'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the issue of competition from German shipping, 1907-1911. Included are a number of reports with statistical tables: List of cargo shipped per SS Canadia from Antwerp (14 July) and Hamburg (16 July)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/737

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/737
Title:
File 1129/1918 'Bushire Trade Reports, (1917- )'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains annual trade reports for the port of Bushire [Bushehr], beginning with fiscal year 1916-17 and ending with fiscal year 1924-25. The reports are authored by the Vice-Consul, Bushire, or by other staff of the Consulate or of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf. The repo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1917-29 Aug 1929
Extent:
1 volume (314 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B411

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B411
Title:
Note on Trade in the Persian Gulf (Communicated by the Board of Trade)
Scope & Content:
Note on trade in the Persian Gulf by the Board of Trade, divided into the following sections: a) General (revised to 26 July 1928); b) Koweit [Kuwait] and Muscat (revised to 26 July 1928); c) The position of British Trade in the Gulf (to 30 June 1928). Section 'a' discusses the counterba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/566

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/566
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: trade with Baghdad’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to trade between Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Great Britain, in the wake of Britain’s military invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and Baghdad; enquiries made to the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Mar 1917-31 Dec 1917
Extent:

1 volume (187 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/570
Title:
File 3104/1915 Pt 7 ‘Mesopotamia; Baghdad Trade &c (Miscellaneous)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning foreign trade in Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] after Britain’s military invasion during the First World War. The papers cover: various enquiries from businesses in England and elsewhere (the Netherlands, the United States of America) about trade wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918-1919
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/367
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Trade Commercial Mission’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with commercial possibilities within Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf for British trade. Of particular concern for British officials is ensuring that British firms are placed in the best possible position to counter expected competition from Germany and Japan following th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jul 1916-12 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)