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11. IOR/L/PS/12/2048

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2048
Title:
Coll 5/84(3) ‘Persian Gulf-Sheikdoms: Anglo-French Air Transit Agreement (Reciprocal Military Air Transit-Rights)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to an Air Transit Agreement being negotiated between the United Kingdom (UK) and France to enable scheduled military aircraft to fly over, and land at airfields within, each other's territories. A number of drafts of this agreement can be found throughout the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jul 1946-26 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/2051

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2051
Title:
Coll 5/84(5) ‘FLIGHTS BY FRENCH MILITARY AIRCRAFT OVER India & BURMA EN ROUTE for SAIGON’
Scope & Content:
The file predominantly consists of telegrams and cypher messages regarding the transit of French military aircraft across India and Burma while en-route to Indochina. The messages contain requests for clearance, details of the planes in transit, their flight schedules, and any restrictions impos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1947-31 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/2053

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2053
Title:
Coll 5/86 ‘Afghanistan: Reorganisation of Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with a report produced by Colonel Alexander Stalker Lancaster, Military Attaché at Kabul, on the current state of the Afghan Air Force and proposals for its reorganisation and improvement: see folios 31-52 for a copy of this report. The report includes a sketch map (folio 4...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1945-1 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/2054

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2054
Title:
Coll 5/87S ‘United States: Request for Military Air Transit Rights in India and Burma’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to negotiations for air transit rights for United States military aircraft through India and Burma. The United States Army Air Force (USAAF) had enjoyed transit rights for its aircraft for the duration of the Second World War (1939-1945), and desired to continue ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1946-26 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (303 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/2058

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2058
Title:
Coll 5/90(3) ‘Indian Overseas Airlines Ltd; Mistry and Clairways Airways Ltd; Air Service from India to Aden along the South Coast of Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The file largely consists of telegrams sent out by the Indian Ministry of External affairs notifying the relevant authorities of proposed charter flights by Indian Overseas Airlines Limited (also referred to as Mistry Airways) and Indamer. Towards the rear of the file are a small number of papers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1948-27 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/18/B320

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B320
Title:
The Use of Aeroplanes in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This printed report consists of a note prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Officiating Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, concerning the use of aeroplanes in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf. The note consists of two parts: the first covers South-West Persia and the second Mesopotamia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/653

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/653
Title:
‘File 28/1 B 1. Gift of £30,000 of Shaikh of Bahrain to the British Government; 2. Purchase of fighter aircraft; 3. Persian Gulf Fighter Fund’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to a financial gift made to the British Government by the Ruler of Bahrain, and a fund set up for the purchase of fighter plans for the Persian Gulf: correspondence relating to the receipt and cashing of a gift of £30,000 made by the Ruler of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1939-23 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

18. 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)

19. IOR/R/15/2/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/671
Title:
‘File 28/1 R Reports from C.A.S.O.C. A.R.P. etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to an enquiry made by the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), dated 27 October 1940, to the Political Agency in Bahrain, asking if British aircraft were flown over the company’s refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia on the night of 25/26 October 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1940-29 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

20. IOR/R/15/2/761

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/761
Title:
‘File 28/74 Oil storage facilities for U.S.T.A.C. [United States Army Transport Corps] at Muharraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, reports and other papers concerning oil storage facilities requested by the United States Army Transport Corps (USATC) at Muharraq airfield in Bahrain. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Tom Hickinbotham...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1943-14 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)