File 10/18 Contemplated Purchase of Certain Oil-Burning Vessels by the Persian Government
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British Consulate General Bushire copy of letter from British Legation, Gulhek, Persia to the Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Department of Overseas Trade (sent under flying seal from His Majesty's Minister Teheran [Tehran]), dated 16 July 1933, discussing the possibility...
File 10/19 Prohibition of Certain Japanese Goods into Bahrain. Proposal re.
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The papers relate to a proposal from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, on advice from the State Engineer, to ban the import from Japan of badly insulated wiring material, which had caused shocks and fires. The proposal was accepted by the Political Agent, Bahrain ...
Correspondence relating to imports of cement into Bahrain. The file includes enquiries from The Cement Marketing Company Ltd, London, about the amount of cement imported into Bahrain for each of the years 1929-1933, to which the Agency provided statistics in response. The enquiries were then disc...
Papers relating to imports of sugar into Bahrain. The British Agent was keen to promote imports of British sugar beet into Bahrain in the face of foreign competition, particularly from Japan. The file includes a letter from the Political Agent (Percy Gordon Loch) to the Political Resident (Trench...
The file consists of papers concerning the import into Bahrain from India of certain consignments of fresh fruit (peaches and pears), July to November 1934, including the statement from the Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain (M Worth) in response to an enquiry from the Agriculture Officer, Nort...
File 10/23 Corr. re. certain Japanese cotton singlets imported into Bahrain by Messrs Trikamdas and Co, and shown as "Made in England"
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Correspondence between the Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain (Meredith Worth); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire (Trenchard Craven William Fowle); the Department of Overseas Trade, London; the firm of C Trikamdas and Company, Bahrain; the Director of Customs and Port Officer,...
The file contains a letter from the Adviser to the Bahrain Government (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) to the Political Agent, Bahrain (Lieutenant Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) concerning the import duty on pearl buttons imported into the United Kingdom and India, 31 July 1933; and a letter from the Pol...
The file consists of letters from the American Consular Service, American Consulate General, Baghdad, Iraq, requesting statistical information on United States interests and trade in Bahrain, and specific information relating to motor vehicles, January 1936 - April 1938, together with replies fro...
File 10/26 Financial status of commercial firms and merchants
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Enquiries, reports and miscellaneous information about trading companies and merchants in Bahrain. The file describes the financial position and reputation of many individual companies and merchants and assesses their reliability as importers and agents. The term 'morality' is used as a synonym ...
File 10/27 Bahrain. General Merchants' Association. Correspondence - re.
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Papers relating to the Bahrain General Merchants' Association, which was a self-constituted body of merchants. The file includes a letter from the Honorary Secretary, Bahrain General Merchants' Association, to the Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), dated 10 August 1939 announcing the for...
