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11. IOR/L/PS/10/990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/990
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the volume relates to: The activities of Major Frank Holmes Draft agreements for an oil concession with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1931
Extent:
1 volume (395 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/991

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/991
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: The 'nationality clause' whereby any concession granted had to be to a British concern Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1931-30 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (457 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/992
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3B 'Persian Gulf: oil; Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492) A report (ff ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1933
Extent:
1 volume (492 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/1003

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1003
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/26
Title:
PZ 3166/31 'Koweit-Iraq: Reciprocal arrangements for service of summonses emanating from courts of Koweit & Iraq'
Scope & Content:
Thefile contains correspondence regarding the ongoing arrangement within Kuwait for serving summonses and other legal documentation emanating from courts inIraq, and discussion of a reciprocal arrangement within Iraq for documentation emanatingfrom Kuwait. The correspondents are: High Commission,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1931-17 Oct 1931
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/110
Title:
PZ 3191/34 'Persian Gulf Viceroy's passage by Imperial Airways from Karachi to UK'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the ceremonial visits made by the Viceroy of India to Bahrain, Kuwait and Sharjah in the summer of 1934, where he landed by aeroplane, on route from Karachi to England by Imperial Airways Ltd, for a period of home leave. The file contains reports by t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1934-15 Aug 1934
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/231

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/231
Title:
PZ 2994/37 'Koweit. Kuwait Electric Company Replacement of German engineer by a British Indian'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding the employment of a German engineer at the Kuwait Electric Company (also referred to as the Kuwait Electric Light Company and the Kuwait Electric Supply Company), and the need for his replacement with a British Indian, due to the strategical importan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1937-18 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/264
Title:
PZ 7386/38 'Enquiry from Mr. H. T. Kemp of Britannic House re certain frontiers of Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an enquiry requesting information on the frontiers of Koweit [Kuwait] with Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Neutral Zone of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Correspondents include: H T Kemp of Britannic House, on behalf of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited [BP]; and the India Office. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1938-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/277
Title:
PZ 465/1939 'Basra Petroleum Company: possibility of a pipeline through Kuwait territory'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter to Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, from Gerald Simpson de Gaury, Political Agency, Kuwait, requesting advice regarding the possible piping of oil through Kuwait territory by the Basra Petroleum Company.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1938-20 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/278
Title:
PZ 467/1939 'Proposed visit of Iraqi Boy Scouts to Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of three telegrams: two from the Political Resident, Bushire, and one from the British Embassy in Baghdad. The Political Resident wrote to HM Ambassador, Baghdad, and copied his correspondence to the Political Agent in Kuwait, the Secretary of State for India and the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1939-7 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)