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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Abadan, Iran

1. IOR/L/PS/12/731

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/731
Title:
Ext 3485/42 'Destruction at Abadan of SS Suisang'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from the British Consulate in Khorramshar, transmitted to the India Office by the British Legation at Tehran, on the subject of the SS Suisang, a British India Steam Navigation Company's ship which caught fire at Abadan whilst loading aviation petrol, and was sunk. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
06 May 1942-03 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/391
Title:
PZ 3220/40 'Detention by Persian authorities of Mirza Barkatali Ahmadi, British Indian subject'
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents relating to the detention of Mirza Barkatali Ali Ahmadi, a British Indian subject from the SS Varsova, for his alleged failure to settle a debt with Yusuf Ali, a naturalised Persian subject and merchant in Abadan, Iran. The charges against Mirza Barkatali Ali Ahmadi ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
18 May 1940-22 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/939

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/939
Title:
Ext 3849/44 'Persian Gulf: Rationing and clothing systems of Anglo Iranian Oil Co at Abadan'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, New Delhi to Office of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Camp Shiraz concerning statistics on the wartime rationing and clothing system of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company at Abadan.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1944-27 Jul 1944
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/4506

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4506
Title:
Coll 44/27 'Persia: Attitude towards European Situation, 1939'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence on Persian [Iranian] attitudes towards the war in Europe [Second World War] from 8 July 1939 to 20 February 1942. The correspondence is primarily comprised of exchanges between HM Minister in Tehran and the Foreign Office, and includes material relating to the fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1939-20 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

5. IOR/W/L/PS/18/B381 (v)-(vi)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/18/B381 (v)-(vi)
Title:
'MAP OF THE SHATT-AL-'ARAB & BAHMANSHĪR, INCLUDING MUHAMMAREH & 'ABBÁDÁN'
Scope & Content:
The map represents the Shatt-al-Arab, Muhammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran], and Abadan. The map records settlements, main buildings, hydrology, roads and telephone lines. Printed in two sheets by the War Office and signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1912
Extent:
1 map (2 sheets)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1282

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1282
Title:
File 6391/1928 'Persia and the Persian Gulf: method of counteracting Soviet activities on Persia and the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file contains the subject 'Method of Counteracting Soviet Activities in Persia and the Persian Gulf'. The papers cover Russian propaganda in Persia, Soviet commercial activities in southern Persia and in the Persian Gulf, and Bolshevik activities in Abadan and Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1925-29 Aug 1929
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3490B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3490B
Title:
Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia; Abadan and S.W. Persian Oilfields; A.I.O.C. Indian Employees’
Scope & Content:
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3490A). It consists chiefly of extracts of quarterly reports, prepared by HM Consul-General at Khorramshahr, on affairs at the Anglo-Iran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1948-4 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3453

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3453
Title:
Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, and other papers, concerning relations between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Persian Government, and between the British and Persian governments over APOC operations in Persia [Iran]. The file covers: reports of attacks on APOC drilling operations at Bik...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Sep 1923-22 Jun 1931
Extent:
1 volume (272 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3939

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3939
Title:
Coll 30/198 ‘Persian Gulf Defence : - ABADAN.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the defence of Abadan (and to a lesser extent other areas of Persia [Iran] and Bahrein [Bahrain]) during the Second World War. It includes papers concerning the following: the defence of oil installations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) at Ab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1942-15 Jul 1943
Extent:

1 file (113 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2896

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2896
Title:
Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to a tour by Sir Basil Newton, HM Ambassador to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, visiting Sharja [Sharjah], Muscat, Bahrain, Basra, Fao [Al-Faw], and Abadan. The file mostly consists of the following: Correspondence between the India Office (Rol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1940-28 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)