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1. IOR/L/PS/10/805

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/805
Title:
File 788/1919 Pt 3-4 ‘Mesopotamia: Disposal of Rivercraft (1920/21)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains material relating to the disposal of river craft in Mesopotamia from December 1919 to January 1921. The volume is separated into two parts: Part 3 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Disposal of River Craft’ (IOR/L/PS/10/805/1) Part 4 ‘MESOPOTAMIA DISPOSAL OF RIVERCRAFT’(IOR/L/PS/10/805/2). Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1919-6 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (584 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/324

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/324
Title:
PZ 147/40 'Oil: question of desirability of supply to British territories by British owned companies'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this file relates to the desirability of ensuring that supplies of oil to British territories are made, as far as possible, by British owned companies. The main correspondents in the file are the Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the Persian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1940-23 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1194A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1194A
Title:
Ext 392/47 'Persian Gulf: Bristol Freighter demonstration tour to Middle East, including Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters and notes. The letters are regarding the demonstration tour given by Airwork Limited of a Bristol Freighter aircraft in Europe and in the Middle East during March and April 1947. One of the letters has attached the itinerary of the tour in Europe and in the Middle Ea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1947-21 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3947

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3947
Title:
Coll 30/207 'Bahrein oil: Changes in oil output from refinery at Bahrein and Ras Tanura. Lighterage difficulties & staffing problems of Gray Mackenzie and Co Ltd at Bahrein and Kuweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file covers various topics concerned with the oil industry at Bahrain, and the activities of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). The papers include: variations in the oil output of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, as a result of commercial and wartime conditions, 1940-42, including corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1940-16 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3959

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3959
Title:
Coll 30/216 'Development of oil supplies in the Middle East.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning the British Government's decision in 1943 to sanction an increase in oil production in the Middle East. The papers include: the agreement of the military authorities, 1943; papers of the War Cabinet Oil Control Board, November 1943 (including approval for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1943-12 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3960

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3960
Title:
Coll 30/217 'American Oil Mission to Middle East (Anglo-U.S. Oil Agreement).'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the United States (US) Government-sanctioned Oil Mission to the Middle East, 1943, and subsequent talks between delegations sponsored by the British and US Governments, which led to the publication of the Anglo-US Oil Agreement in 1944, the purpose of which was to manage intern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1943-27 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (351 folios)