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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Cable and Wireless Ltd, 1929-1981

31. IOR/L/PS/12/4149

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4149
Title:
Coll 35/42 'Persian Gulf: cable arrangements'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Persian Gulf cable system. The file contains: suggestions for bypassing Bushire during communication with India via Bahrain a copy of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia, 1933 interruption to Bahrain cable, and communicatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1940-26 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (427 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/12/4156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4156
Title:
Coll 35/48 'Muscat: installation of automatic telephone system'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the installation of telephone equipment at Muscat by Cable and Wireless Limited. The file contains correspondence between: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Cable and Wireless Limited; the General Post Office; and Automatic Telep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1946-26 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/4157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4157
Title:
Coll 35/48(1) 'Persian Gulf: opening of telegraph office in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns discussions on the proposed opening of a telegraph office in Qatar. The file contains correspondence between: the Government of India; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Commonwealth Communications Council; the India Office; and Cable and Wireless Limited.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1946-6 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/1/469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/469
Title:
File 51/88 I Cable and Wireless Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The agreement between Shaikh Ahmad of Kuwait [Āl Ṣabāḥ, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir] and Cable and Wireless Ltd for the opening of a telegraph station in Kuwait. It covers the extent of the company's remit, taxes, payment of set-up costs, expansion, security, technical training for Kuwaiti nationals, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/1/698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/698
Title:
'C-85. 86/30 - I WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding applications from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), represented primarily by Hamilton R Ballantyne and Max Weston Thornburg, for permission to install wireless apparatus and operate wireless te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1938-6 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (195 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/1/699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/699
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/30 - II VOL. C.91. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, Tom Hickinbotham, Cornelius James Pelly, Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), the India office (Roland Tennyson Peel, Francis Anthony ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1942-22 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/1/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/751
Title:
Cable and Wireless Concession Agreement with Shaikh of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains two copies of a concession agreement between Cable & Wireless Limited and the Government of Bahrain (represented by Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain). The agreements (folios 5-18) were signed in the presence of Hugh Dunstan Rance, the British Politi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/2/344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/344
Title:
File 9/3 Indian business interests in Bahrain and the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning how to improve the Indian trade in the Gulf and how to increase it to the detriment of the Japanese trade, providing that India can supply similar goods at competitive prices. The file contains info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/2/519

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/519
Title:
‘File 13/10 Radio Watches with Civil Air Craft in flight and Installation of Low Power Radio Station for Local Aircraft Control.’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents concern the use of radio communications at Bahrain to communicate with aircraft in flight. The first half of the file, covering the period November 1940 to January 1941, relates to a request to the Bahrain Political Agent, from British Overseas Airways Corporation’s (BOAC) Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1940-11 Mar 1944
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/2/557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/557
Title:
File No. 17/1-I Posts and Telegraphs. Bahrain Radio Station.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the Officer-in-Charge of the Bahrain Branch of Cable and Wireless Limited (Cecil Bottomley), the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), the Shaikh of Bahrain (Ḥamad bin ‘Īs...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1932-8 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)