File 36/73 Import of Goods by Bapco from India and Other Countries
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This file contains correspondence regarding goods imported into Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) from India, Iraq, the United States and other countries. The correspondence in the file is primarily between BAPCO officials, the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Office of the Petr...
This file contains a letter from Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, to the Political Agency in Bahrain requesting permission on behalf of the country's ruler, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, to import cars from the USA. Also contained in the file are a number of letter...
File 36/86 II Export of Gold and Silver from Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence regarding the movement of currency and precious metals (gold and silver) around the Persian Gulf. The Correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Customs Department of the Government of Bahrain and the Eastern Bank Limited. A small...
This file contains correspondence regarding a request made by the merchant Ali R Reza to import powdered milk from a supplier based in the United States. The correspondence includes Reza's original request sent to the Political Agency in Bahrain and related correspondence between British offic...
This file contains requests for permission to import stationery from suppliers in the United States that were sent from the Modern Art Studio in Bahrain to the Political Agency.
This file contains correspondence regarding the imports from the United States that the Governments of Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait required for the year 1946. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain, the Political Agency in Muscat and the Political Residency. The...
File 36/102 Requirements of Steel from the United Kingdom
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This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Political Residency in Bushire regarding UK steel imports required by Bahrain for the first half of 1946.
File 36/103 Requirements of Trucial Coast from the United Kingdom during 1946
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the requirements of imports from the UK that were needed in the Trucial Coast for the year 1946. The correspondence is primarily between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Residency Agent in Sharjah.
File 36/104 Requirements from Europe During January-June, 1946
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This file contains correspondence regarding the Government of Bahrain's projected requirements of imports from European countries (including the British-administered zone of Occupied Germany in 1946). This correspondence is between the Political Agency, the Political Residency, the Government ...
File 36/106 III Control of Motor Vehicles in Bahrain
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This file contains correspondence regarding the importation of cars into Bahrain. This correspondence, some of which is in Arabic, primarily consists of letters to the Political Agency in Bahrain from local merchants, members of the ruling family, and other residents requesting permission to imp...
