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111. IOR/R/15/2/662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662
Title:
‘File 28/1 K II Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and to a lesser extent, those operated by the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1942-30 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (287 folios)

112. IOR/R/15/2/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/670
Title:
‘File 28/1 Q Provision of armed guard for British Overseas Airways Corporation Limited; Cable & Wireless etc.’
Scope & Content:
The first part of the file (ff 2-6), containing correspondence dated 1940, chiefly from the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Station Superintendent at Bahrain, concerns the provision of armed guards as an anti-sabotage measure for BOAC aircraft on night stops at Bahrain. The correspon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1940-25 Aug 1943
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

113. IOR/R/15/2/761

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/761
Title:
‘File 28/74 Oil storage facilities for U.S.T.A.C. [United States Army Transport Corps] at Muharraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, reports and other papers concerning oil storage facilities requested by the United States Army Transport Corps (USATC) at Muharraq airfield in Bahrain. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Tom Hickinbotham...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1943-14 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

114. IOR/R/15/2/685

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/685
Title:
‘File 28/5 (a) II War. Proped Extention [sic] of Export Licences System. (Monthly Statements of Imports & Exports on main Commodity into & from Bahrain & the Trucial Coast)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of statistical reports on the imports and exports of important commodities into and out of Bahrain and Sharjah and Dubai on the Trucial Coast, as part of the wider export licence controls and Navicert system of trade and contraband control during the Second World War. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1943-Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (255 folios)

115. IOR/R/15/2/699

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/699
Title:
‘File 28/13 Black out and A.R.P. [Air Raid Precaution] measures in Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, copies of official notices and regulations, and other papers, relating to air raid precautions and passive air defence measures taken in Bahrain throughout the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Major ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 May 1940-22 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

116. IOR/R/15/2/662, f 115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662, f 115
Title:
‘Xmas Tree’
Scope & Content:
The diagram shows a cross-section of a configuration of valves and other fittings at the top of an oil well, commonly referred to as a Christmas tree. The diagram is labelled ‘fig.3’, and is part of a number of other figures (1, 2, 4 and 5) which are included on a blueprint plan also in the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 diagram

117. IOR/R/15/2/736, f 13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/736, f 13
Title:
‘Iraq and Persia’
Scope & Content:
The map indicates British military boundaries in Iraq and Persia [Iran], in the wake of the military reorganisation carried out in the region, as described in the letter from Tenth Army HQ, dated 23 July 1942, to which the map was attached in the file (ff 6-8). The map indicates: inter-army boun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1942
Extent:

1 map

118. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 47
Title:
Photograph of a flatbed truck. Photographer unknown.
Scope & Content:
Subject Matter: View of a six-wheel flatbed truck, manufactured by the Autocar Company, USA, and used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The truck is stationary and stands on a sandy surface.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 b&w silver gelatin print

119. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 48
Title:
Photograph of a flatbed truck. Photographer unknown.
Scope & Content:
Subject Matter: View of a six-wheel flatbed truck, manufactured by the Autocar Company, USA, and used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The truck is stationary and stands on a sandy surface. The photograph is identical, but is a mirror image on the x-axis, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1940
Extent:
1 b&w silver-gelatin print

120. IOR/R/15/2/651, f 59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651, f 59
Title:
‘Comparative tire [tyre] sections used on Fords in Arabia’
Scope & Content:
The diagram shows tire [tyre] sections of Ford trucks used by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, for the following tyre makes and models: Goodyear Air Wheel; Dunlop; Royal Atlas; Firestone (English); Goodrich Silvertown (American, spelt Slivertown in the diagram). The d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1940]
Extent:
1 diagram