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1. IOR/L/PS/12/771

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/771
Title:
Ext 6363/42 'Supply of stationery to Cable and Wireless Ltd, Bushire'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Secretary of State for India, requesting stationery for Cable and Wireless Limited, 'essential for war communications'.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1942-12 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/775

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/775
Title:
Ext 6516/42 'Despatch of telegrams'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Government of India, External Affairs Department, and the India Office, regarding the despatch of the same telegrams by mistake both enciphered and en clair.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1942-9 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/785
Title:
Ext 271/43 Censorship of messages sent by Turkish mission in New Delhi
Scope & Content:
The file contains a telegram from the Government of India, External Department, to the Secretary of State for India, informing that restrictions were applied to the messages sent by the Turkish mission in New Delhi.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3688

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3688
Title:
Coll 29/110 'Lingah Consular Agency: and appointment of officer to control wireless station at Jask'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns consular expenditure in Persia, the reopening in 1943 of the Lingah [Bandar Lengeh, Iran] Consular Agency, the re-opening of a Wireless Station at Jask in 1943, and the appointment of an officer to control Lingah wireless station. The file is composed solely of internal corres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1942-8 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/751
Title:
Cable and Wireless Concession Agreement with Shaikh of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains two copies of a concession agreement between Cable & Wireless Limited and the Government of Bahrain (represented by Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the ruler of Bahrain). The agreements (folios 5-18) were signed in the presence of Hugh Dunstan Rance, the British Politi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/442

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/442
Title:
File 10/15 Annex. Radio telephone communications between Bahrain and Dhahran
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters and telegrams by the Political Agent at Bahrain, authorising the use of radio telephonic communications between Bahrain and Dharhan, to communicate messages for California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), and confirmati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1942-3 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (80 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/497
Title:
File 12/4 I Bahrain: channels of correspondence
Scope & Content:
The volume contains covering letters and correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, the British Consulate at Basra, the India Office in London, and the Political Residency in the Gulf; concerning the transmission and despatch of mail, packets, secret documents and cypher...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1933-29 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 volume (202 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/498

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/498
Title:
File 12/8 Channels of communication for secret and confidential documents
Scope & Content:
The volume contains covering letters and correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, the India Office in London, the Government of India, the Political Residency in the Gulf, the British Consulate at Basra and Yusuf Ahmad Kanoo, concerning the transmission, despatch and r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1935-30 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (159 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/536

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/536
Title:
‘File 13/32 Joint use of Bahrain and Sharjah airfields by civil and military aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to the proposed joint-use of the aerodromes at Bahrain and Sharjah for both civil and military purposes, and are chiefly comprised of a series of papers entitled ‘General Principles and Practices to be followed at Joint-User Airfields Overseas’, issued by the Ministry ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1948-2 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/568

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/568
Title:
File No. 17/20 MIDDLE EAST TELECOMMUNICATIONS' ADVISER.
Scope & Content:
The file discusses the position of Middle East Telecommunications Adviser, later Attaché, which was created in May 1946, with Herbert Gray Sinclair appointed to the post, but was discontinued in June 1948. Included in the file are details of the responsibilities of the position; a tour of the M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 May 1946-28 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)