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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Muharraq Aerodrome, Bahrain

1. IOR/L/PS/12/1964

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1964
Title:
Coll 5/18 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Use of landing grounds by foreign aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, and related India Office notes, regarding the Arabian Coast air route linking Europe and Asia. In particular, it is concerned with Britain's policy over restricting access to this route to non-British aircraft. It contains applications from the Governments of Fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Aug 1932-20 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (544 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1972, f 133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1972, f 133
Title:
‘A piece of land situated at Moharraq’
Scope & Content:
A sketch map sent to the Political Agent at Bahrain by Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (see folio 132), for the purpose of coming to a definitive arrangement with the Royal Air Force (RAF) respecting the Muharraq Aerodrome. It is divided into three sections: "A" area owned...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1944
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2045

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2045
Title:
Coll 5/83 ‘Re-Fuelling facilities for R.A.F and USATC at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning refuelling arrangements for the Royal Air Force (RAF), the United States Army Transport Command (USATC), and the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), during the Second World War (1939-1945) and into the post-war period. In particular, the distribution ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1944-10 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (213 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B440

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B440
Title:
‘Air Navigation Regulations for Civil Aircraft for the Territory of Bahrein, and Conditions governing the use of the Aerodrome at Muharraq approved by His Excellency Sheikh Hamad bin ’Isa Al Khalifah, C.S.I., Ruler of Bahrein.’
Scope & Content:
Two copies of air navigation regulations for civil aircraft for Bahrain [spelt Bahrein throughout], with conditions governing the use of the aerodrome at Muharraq, as approved by the ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah. The air navigation regulations cover: authorisation for air...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1934
Extent:

4 folios

5. IOR/R/15/2/502

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/502
Title:
File 12/15 Political Agent's tour
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, Hugh Weightman, mostly from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political agent at Sharjah, regarding arrangements and programmes for his official visits to the Trucial Coast and Qa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1937-1 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (233 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/509
Title:
‘File 13/2 A Air facilities in Arab shaikhdoms. Routine correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The file relates to fuelling instructions at the aerodrome in Bahrain. A copy of a letter from the Branch Manager of the BP [British Petroleum] Aviation Service, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 20 March 1949 (f 4), states that the company will permit fuelling of aircraft whil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1949-23 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/510

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/510
Title:
‘File 13/3 BOAC [British Overseas Airways Corporation] services’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to the introduction, maintenance and withdrawal of air services operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in the Gulf, stopping at Bahrain, Sharjah or Dubai. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain (numerous incumbe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1932-20 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (226 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/511

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/511
Title:
‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to requests from foreign airlines – chiefly the Dutch company Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) and Air France – to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and its aerodrome facilities at Bahrain, Gwadur [Gwādar, then a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Sep 1932-30 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/517

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/517
Title:
‘File 13/7 III AVIATION. Civil Aerodromes, terms of Agreement etc.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, which is a continuation of ‘File 13/7 II Civil Aerodromes and Civil Air Agreement–Bahrain’ (IOR/R/15/2/516) contains correspondence and other papers related to the extension of the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement, the ongoing development of civil aviation facilities at Bahrain, and the t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1936-22 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (302 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/521

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/521
Title:
‘File 13/12 Post-war civil air services expansion’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of copies of letters and telegrams sent to and from the Political Agency in Bahrain, and published Government white papers, relating to the development of civil aviation facilities in Bahrain in the post-Second World War period. Specific subjects covered by the file: In March ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1944-17 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)