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21. IOR/L/PS/12/1479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1479
Title:
Coll 1/43 'Aden. Changes in civil administration in the event of separation from India: Post Office and telephone services'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly), the India Office Political Department, the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry, the Government of India Department of Industries and Labour (Posts and Telegraphs branch), and the Director General for Posts and T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1933-10 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (91 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/12/1509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1509
Title:
Coll 1/72 'Kamaran: postal arrangements'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner, the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, and the Colonial Office. The papers discuss the continuation of the postal service at Kamaran following the transfer of Aden to the Colonial Office, and the possible...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1937-5 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/12/3631

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3631
Title:
Coll 29/55 'Division of diplomatic and consular expenditure: cost of telegrams and air mail letters'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the costs for confidential mail. The file contains correspondence related to: carriage of confidential mails between London, India and Persia suggestion that a moiety of the cost of conveying confidential mails from London to Tehran by air mail should be accepted as a charge u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1929-31 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 file (89 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/12/4147

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4147
Title:
Coll 35/39 'Telegraphs, Postal and Wireless, Saudi Arabia: Transmission of mail between Saudi Arabia and India; Adjustment of Postal charges in connection with disposal of mail bags from Jedda'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the mail service between Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Bombay [Mumbai], India. It is particularly concerned with an adjustment in postal charges to meet the cost of distributing mail from Jeddah after it reaches Bombay. The correspondents are: the India Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1939-6 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

25. IOR/R/15/1/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/98
Title:
Vol 134 Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains three letters and a company circular received by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from: a British company in Baghdad advertising its new overland postal service in Arabia (folios 1A-3), Commander Porter reporting on his sea patrol of the Persian Gulf in Ja...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1842-14 Jun 1843
Extent:
1 volume, 3 items (6 folios)

26. IOR/R/15/2/478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/478
Title:
11/18 EXCHANGE OF MAILS BETWEEN HASA & BAHRAIN
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the exchange of postal services between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and covers: 1932-1933 (ff 2-30): the conveyance of post between Hasa [al-Aḥsā’] and Bahrain, as well as between Hasa and other foreign countries via Bahrain; 1934 (ff 31-43): Saudi Posts, Telegraph and Telephone ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1932-30 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (69 folios)

27. IOR/R/15/2/562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/562
Title:
File No. 17/9 MAILS BETWEEN BAHRAIN & IRAN
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Agent at Bahrain (Reginald George Evelin Alban, Edward Birkbeck Wakefield), the Sub-Postmaster at Bahrain, Secretary to the External Affairs Department of the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
21 Sep 1937-8 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (203 folios)

28. IOR/R/15/2/564

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/564
Title:
File No. 17/14 USE OF UNITED STATES ARMY POST OFFICE FACILITIES FOR BAPCO & ARAMCO.
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the use by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) of the United States Army Post Office in Bahrain to send mail and parcels to the United States and Canada. The correspondence discusses permission the existi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1944-3 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

29. IOR/R/15/2/709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/709
Title:
‘File 28/18 Sabotage smuggling etc of mail’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and notes relating to the possible sabotage and smuggling of mail: a telegram from the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG), dated 18 November 1940, reporting a suspected case of sabotage in which a leaking jar of acid was found in a mail bag (f 2); a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1940-22 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

30. IOR/R/15/2/1410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1410
Title:
File 14/1 Correspondence regarding calls of mail steamers at Bahrain and general correspondence regarding postal matters
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams, correspondence and notices regarding postal matters: conveyance of mail at Bahrain, dispatch of mail from Bahrain, air mail service, shipping, postal facilities in the Persian Gulf area, and restriction of telecommunications and mail services to other countries durin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 May 1938-23 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (302 folios)