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81. IOR/R/15/2/791

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/791
Title:
File 29/30 vol. ii CIVIL REQUIREMENTS - MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS - EG. PEPPER, SPICES, TURMERIC, ETC
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about the supply of foodstuffs, cotton and leather goods, soap and other manufactured articles, from India to Bahrain and the Trucial Coast ports of Dubai and Sharjah for local consumption, under Government of India wartime export licensing restrictions and import...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 May 1945-1 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (149 folios)

82. IOR/R/15/2/1497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1497
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/4 Correspondence with – the Mespers, Bahrain, etc.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency at Bahrain and various steamship operators at Bahrain, as follows: until 1937, representatives of the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (MPC hereafter; briefly referred to as the Mesopotamia Iran Corporation in early 1937 and referred to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1926-18 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (268 folios)

83. IOR/R/15/2/1498

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1498
Title:
‘File 16/5 Bahrain Agency: fortnightly political diaries’
Scope & Content:
Reports, submitted by the Political Agent (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) or the Indian Assistant at the Political Agency in the Political Agent’s absence, detailing proceedings at Bahrain and elsewhere. The reports are organised under various headings, as follows: arrivals and departures of sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1930-10 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

84. IOR/R/15/2/1499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1499
Title:
‘File 16/6 Diary weekly Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly reports (as opposed to weekly reports, as stated on its cover) from the Political Agency in Kuwait. The reports are signed by the Political Agent (Major James Carmichael More; Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), or, in his absence,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1926-31 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

85. IOR/R/15/2/1508

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1508
Title:
‘File 16/11 Arab shipping companies’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a single piece of correspondence, a letter sent by the Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Cornelius James Pelly) to the British Political Agents and Consuls in the Persian Gulf region, dated 2 January 1947 (f 2). Enclosed with the letter is a typewritten e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1946-2 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

86. IOR/R/15/2/1539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1539
Title:
‘File 16/34-II Letters of guarantee. Issue of:–’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the principal shipping agents at Bahrain: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, and Gray, Mackenzie & Company Limited. The correspondence is routine, and relates to the exchange of bills of lading and redemption of let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1935-11 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

87. IOR/R/15/2/1560

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1560
Title:
‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, timetables and other papers relating to the activities of the shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company, in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East region. Correspondence and papers relating to other transport operators are also included in the file: Imperial Airways (...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1937-27 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (127 folios)

88. IOR/R/15/2/1990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1990
Title:
‘Transport requirements; Truck for office’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the shipment from Basra to Bahrain of a Dodge truck for use by the Public Relations Office in Bahrain, and the shipment in the opposite direction of a Hudson saloon car. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Public Relations Officer in Basra (M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1945-13 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

89. IOR/R/15/5/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/78
Title:
File 27/3 ‘German Shipping & Trade Competition’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence, memoranda reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the German and Japanese interest in shipping and trade in the Persian Gulf, particularly in Kuwait (also written in some parts of the file as Koweit). The papers notably cover/include the following: The est...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1906-27 Nov 1916
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

90. IOR/R/15/5/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/128
Title:
File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)