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41. 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)

42. 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)

43. IOR/R/15/2/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/483
Title:
'ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns economic developments in Saudi Arabia, including extracts from 'Saudi Arabia Monthly Economic Report. January/February 1948' (f 2) and March 1948 (f 7); extracts from 'Review of Middle East Press' dated 1 May 1948 (folio 3) and 28 May 1948 (folios 4-6); and a copy of an extract...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1948-4 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

44. IOR/R/15/2/593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/593
Title:
‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a Japanese oil broker named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

45. IOR/R/15/2/606

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/606
Title:
'21/2 TAXES IN QATAR'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns protests by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited to the British Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the plan of Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, the Ruler of Qatar, to impose a system of taxation on its employees and the question of whether this breaches Article 10 of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1940-9 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/652

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/652
Title:
‘File 28/1 A Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited – standing orders for their guards’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises letters sent by representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), generally the Chief Local Representative, John S Black, to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), enclosing copies of standing orders issued to their guards and security personnel for the defen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1939-25 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/2/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/657
Title:
‘File 28/1 G Bahrain Special Police’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to the day-to-day organisation of the Bahrain Special Police, occasionally referred to as the Bahrain Defence Force, including arrangements for recruitment, training, pay, provisions, expenses, etc. The principal correspondents in the file are...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1939-27 Sep 1945
Extent:
1 file (130 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/2/661

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/661
Title:
‘File 28/1 K I Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the military defence of Bahrain’s oil refineries and oil fields during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1939-3 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (340 folios)

49. 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)

50. IOR/R/15/2/663

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/663
Title:
‘File 28/1 K III Defence of oil field & refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition (‘oil denial’) of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and the subsequent abandonment of these de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1942-10 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)