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037-000229279 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British Overseas Airways Corporation, 1939-1974

1. IOR/R/15/2/1682

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1682
Title:
File 21/31 Personal Accident Insurance (Air Travel)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the station manager of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in Bahrain and Tom Hickinbotham, the Political Agent at Bahrain. The correspondence is regarding the issuing of Personal Accident (Air Travel) insurance policies by the corporation in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1944-29 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1328

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1328
Title:
File 7/15 British Overseas Airways Corporation [BOAC] - Customs Exemption
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; G H C Lee, Assistant Regional Director, British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1944-29 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1686
Title:
File 21/35 Accidents to British Overseas Airways Corporation planes
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, with enclosures, between the Political Agency at Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) relating to the crash of BOAC flying boat number G-AHZB on 23 August 1947. The aircraft crashed into the sea on landing, killing ten of the twenty-six pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1947-3 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1687

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1687
Title:
File 21/36 Miscellaneous correspondence with British Overseas Airways Corporation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the British Overseas Airways Corporation in Bahrain. Additional correspondence is from the Foreign Office and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain. The papers cover a range of matters, mostly of an o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1947-18 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (356 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1266
Title:
File 6/48 Telephones - Correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the telephone network in Bahrain. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the State Engineer of the Government of Bahrain. The papers are concerned with the maintenance and extension of the network, changes to telephone ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1932-8 Jul 1950
Extent:
1 file (188 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1564
Title:
‘File 16/53 Enquires Re: Calculation of Local Time’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and various governmental, commercial and military institutions in Bahrain, aimed at gathering a consensus on the standardisation of time in Bahrain, and the establishment of a set local time in relation to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1940-1 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1263
Title:
File 6/45 Licensing of motor cars and driving rules - correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to driving regulations and licensing in Bahrain. The correspondence is mostly between the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Political Agency in Bahrain, and the Office of Traffic Branch of the Bahrain State Police. Further c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1934-5 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (120 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1655

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1655
Title:
File 19/2 V Tours of the Honourable the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for official visits of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Bahrain and other Persian Gulf countries between 1945 and 1950. The principal correspondents are: British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC); the Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1945-14 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (132 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1419
Title:
File 14/5 II Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Sharjah and Dubai
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams discussing the opening of a Post Office in Dubai, rather than in Sharjah (see IOR/R/15/2/1418); the main subjects are arrangements for the building, air mail facilities and conveyance of mail. The file contains an agreement with the contractor for t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1940-9 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (229 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1654

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1654
Title:
File 19/2 IV The Honourable the Political Resident's tours, etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for official visits of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Bahrain and other Persian Gulf countries between 1937 and 1944. The file contains programmes of the visits, arrangements for meetings with ruling families, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1937-2 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (415 folios)