File 36/106 III Allotment Register of Cars of 1947
Scope & Content:
This file contains lists of the allocation of car imports from the United States into Bahrain for the year 1947, as determined by the Political Agency. The lists are divided up by different car manufacturers including Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler/Dodge and Buick.
File 36/107 Prohibition Regarding Sale of Service Property
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the sale of surplus military equipment (including vehicles) and other supplies by British military forces in Bahrain and Sharjah after the end of the Second World War. These supplies were purchased by the Government of Bahrain and a number of other p...
‘M. Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam versus Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros of Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises court papers, including affidavits and exhibits (copies of correspondence, telegrams, invoices, transhipment notes) used in support of an arbitration case brought by M Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika, against Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros. of Bahrain. The case was heard...
The un-numbered files comprise correspondence and papers covering a miscellaneous range of subjects: a court case, heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain in 1950, relating to a legal dispute between M Suleman Versi of Dar es Salaam, and Ahmed Fakhroo & Bros of Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1819); de...
The file comprises maps and notes prepared in anticipation of the stopping off at Bahrain of Indian Army regiments that were part of Indian Expeditionary Force D, which travelled from Bombay to Basra in October 1914, and went on to fight in the Mesopotamian campaign of the First World War. The r...
‘Sketch of camp 1 mile south of MANAMAH (BAHRAIN ISLAND)’
Scope & Content:
The map is a hand drawn copy made through carbon paper, with some additional handwritten pencil annotations. It shows twelve camps (numbered 1-12), indicated as squares on the map, with a key identifying each camp (allocated to various regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D) to the right of th...
The map, drawn in pencil with red pen annotations, indicates proposed campsites (labelled A, B and C) for regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D, outside of Manama town in Bahrain. The map indicates: principal buildings and thoroughfares in Manama and its vicinity (including the Political Age...
The map, drawn in pencil with red pen annotations, indicates proposed campsites (labelled A, B and C) for regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D, outside of Manama town in Bahrain. The map indicates: principal buildings and thoroughfares in Manama and its vicinity (including the Political Age...
The map, drawn in pencil with red pen annotations, indicates proposed campsites (labelled A, B and C) for regiments of Indian Expeditionary Force D, outside of Manama town in Bahrain. The map indicates: principal buildings and thoroughfares in Manama and its vicinity (including the Political Age...
‘Foreign Office budget for the year 1949-50 and six monthly expenditure etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to the accounts (actual expenditure and estimated budget) of the Political Agencies at Bahrain and Sharjah: a copy of a circular written by Ernest Bevin, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 18 July 1946, requesting returns from overseas agencies ...
