Search

032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name General Post Office, 1660-1969

1. IOR/L/PS/10/47/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 2 'Koweit:- Postal arrangements. Establishment of a regular Post Office.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the opening of a Post Office at Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (from 1904 Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909, Captain William Henry Irvine Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1899-23 Apr 1915
Extent:

120 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1423

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1423
Title:
Pol Ext 8327/49 'D.G. BRUGGER: COMPLAINT OF NON-RECEIPT OF POSTAGE STAMPS FROM KUWAIT.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between D A Bruggers, the Postal Services Department, and the Commonwealth Relations Office, regarding the complaints by Bruggers that sent goods failed delivery to Kuwait. The subsequent correspondence details the change in offices after Indian independence r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1949-18 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/1304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1304
Title:
Ext 732/48 'Supply of transport to Postal Superintendent, Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request by H C Breach, Postal Superintendent, Bahrain, for a car to be purchased for his official and personal use. As well as Breach, the primary correspondents are: General Post Office; Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Commonwealth Relations Office....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1948-31 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/772

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/772
Title:
File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the importance of re-establishing telegraphic communication between India and England via the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia [Iraq] to Mediterranean ports under British control. The papers notably cover the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916-1 Jul 1920
Extent:

1 volume (146 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/83/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
Scope & Content:
Part one of the volume relates to postal services in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is between the Foreign Office, India Office and Government of India. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the General Post Office in London, representatives of Gray, Mackenzie, and Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1905-Jan 1912
Extent:
1 item (91 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/4121

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4121
Title:
Coll 35/16A 'Kuwait Air Mail services'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arrangements for the delivery of airmail between UK and Kuwait, and between Kuwait and Iraq. The file contains correspondence between the UK General Post Office, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the India Office, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1948-19 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/51
Title:
PZ 2246/1932 'Communications between London and the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to communications between London and the Middle East. It mainly consists of copies of correspondence sent to the India Office from the Foreign Office. This largely consists of copies of correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Apr 1932-26 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/4122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4122
Title:
Coll 35/16B 'Post and telegraph arrangements at Gwadur'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns arrangements for the opening of a post and telegraph office at Gwadur [Gwadar, Pakistan], operated by Cable and Wireless, and the telegraph lines between Muscat and Gwadur. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Muscat, the Political Resident in the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Aug 1947-14 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)