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11. IOR/R/15/2/470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/470
Title:
'11/8 OPENING A BANK AT AL KHOBAR'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns plans in 1944-45 and 1949 to open bank branches on the mainland of Saudi Arabia. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited, Bahrain; the A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1944-28 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/471

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/471
Title:
'11/9 AMIR OF DHAHRAN'
Scope & Content:
This files concerns relations between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Amir of Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. The correspondents in the file include Khalid Sidairi [Khālid al-Suayrī], Amir of al-Ẓahrān; the Political Agent at Bahrain; and the Political Resident i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1945-15 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/475
Title:
'DAMMAM DHAHRAN PROJECT'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Aramco construction projects at Dammam [Dammām] and Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān], Saudi Arabia, including a proposal for a seven mile pier (folio 3) and 330 mile-long railway running from Dammām to Riyadh (folio 4). The file also includes 'Notes on visit to Dhahran - 26th/27th November,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1946-23 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/476

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/476
Title:
'Indian Vice-consul at Dhahran'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the possible appointment of a vice-consul at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] by the Government of India. Correspondents in the file include Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly, the Political Agent at Bahrain; and L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1947-27 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/479
Title:
'Visits by foreigners to Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the request by Reverend Father Gabriel [Fleming?], a Roman Catholic priest at Bahrain, to visit Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] for religious services within the premises of the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco). The request is subsequently refused by the Saudi Government Representativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1944-10 Jan 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/481
Title:
Activities of Foreign Agents in Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns suspicions of foreign agent activity in Saudi Arabia. Folios 2-5 and 8 concern suspicions held by C S Freebury of Gray Mackenzie and Company Limited at Ras Tanura, with regards to Mr Jean de Kuharski and Mr Pixton (Polish and English citizens respectively, who are said to be ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1947-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/528
Title:
‘File 13/23 Survey of P.G. [Persian Gulf] Aerodromes’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the arrival in Bahrain in January 1947, of a survey party, who are touring the head of the Persian Gulf to assess the region’s aerodromes. The principal correspondents in the file are the Bahrain Political Agent, Captain Hug...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1946-3 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/2/588

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588
Title:
‘19/1 VISIT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns educational visits to Bahrain, including a visit of six Iraqi teachers to Bahrain in 1933 (ff 2-9); a visit of Kuwait teachers and twenty-seven schoolboys and their possible interest in visiting the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASCO) camp at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in February...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-1 Apr 1941
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

19. IOR/R/15/2/662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662
Title:
‘File 28/1 K II Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and to a lesser extent, those operated by the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1942-30 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (287 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/2/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/669
Title:
‘File 28/1 P Visit of enemy aircraft to Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to an air raid carried out by Italian bombers over the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) refinery in Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia, on the night...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1940-7 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)