File 17/15 II Government Property: Advances for the purchase and up-keep of cars
Scope & Content:
Circular issued by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, distributing a copy of Government of India Finance Department Memorandum D 7526-N/46, advising that Government servants may be granted advances for the purchase of motor cars.
This file concerns the redeployment of the Political Residency's bookbinder at various points between 1933 and 1945, for the purpose of binding some of the Bahrain Political Agency's files, as well as some of the other Gulf Agencies' files. Most of the file consists of correspondence between t...
This file concerns plans for wireless broadcasting sets to be provided to the Political Agencies at Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat, as well as at the Residency at Sharjah, for the purpose of making up-to-date news available (with the cost of the wireless sets being borne wholly by His Majesty's Gov...
This file concerns the Bahrain Political Agency's purchase of a Gestetner duplicating machine, plus accessories. The file also contains correspondence regarding the shipping of stationery from the Government of India's central stationery office in Calcutta to the Political Agency at Bahrain. Th...
The file is concerned with the Bahrain Agency Library, which is a stock of books considered to be of use to Agency staff. The file therefore contains orders for new books, and relevant invoices and receipts; the main supplier is Messrs Thacker and Company Limited, Bombay. It also contains corres...
Papers relating to the scheme for supplying furniture for the use of Bahrain Agency clerks. The file contains: scale of furniture lists, describing the minimum requirements for staff recruited from India, and based on the articles of furniture supplied to the clerical staff at Cable & Wirele...
File 17/21 Purchase of a Pick up for the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the purchase in 1941 of a Ford Pickup (1939 model) from Khalil bin Ebrahim Kanoo for the use of the Trucial Coast Agency, along with subsequent repairs and acquisitions of replacement parts; of particular concern is the necessity of fitting desert tires to the pickup. ...
This file concerns annual indents for military forms for the Political Agency, Bahrain. It consists of brief letters and memoranda between the Political Agent, Bahrain, and the Deputy Assistant Controller of Military Accounts and Pensions, Lahore, in which the former informs the latter whether o...
This file consists largely of correspondence concerning stationery supplied to the Political Agency, Bahrain. Items ordered include rubber stamps, notepaper, envelopes, and printed forms. Much of the correspondence relates to the details of orders and the granting of export permits (from the Gov...
