Tracing of parts of Admiralty chart 2837.B. showing tracks and positions in the course of an aerial reconnaissance of the Qatar Peninsula on 11 October 1935 by Squadron Leader J H Dand, Air Headquarters, British Forces in Iraq, Hinaidi. There is a report on the reconnaissance at IOR/R/15/2/159, ...
Distinctive Features: Tracing showing land at Quadabiya acquired by the Bahrain Government for the purposes of a British naval installation outlined in red with dimensions reported. Private properties labelled with owners’ names given.
‘PLAN SHOWING A PIECE OF GROUND BETWEEN BASAITEEN & DAIR MOHARRAQ’
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Distinctive Features: Enclosed with letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave to Political Agent, Bahrain, dated 11th April 1934 (folio 85). Tracing showing area between villages of Busaitin and Deir at Muharraq acquired by the Government of Bahrain outlined in red with dimensions reported.
Map indicating boundary lines between Saudi Arabia and Qatar
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The map accompanies a printed confidential memorandum entitled ‘The South-Eastern Frontiers of Saudi Arabia [with maps]’, produced by the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, dated 30 June 1940. It shows the southern half of the Qatar Peninsula and the adjoining mainland, and indicates nume...
‘SITRA OIL LOADING TERMINAL AT BAHREIN ISLAND, PERSIAN GULF. MOORING LAYOUT’
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Issued with the ‘Port Information Booklet’ published by the Bahrein Petroleum Company, signed ‘T.C.G.’ and dated February 28, 1946. Below title: ‘C-3041 supersedes S.F. Drwg. No 36492’. Distinctive Features: Depth shown by soundings and contours. Map produced to illustrate the Oil Loading T...
‘Refinery tankage – proposed method for brick sheathing’
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Blueprint plan showing a cross-section and elevation of a proposed method of construction for the brick sheathing of oil refinery tanks at the Bahrain Petroleum Refinery in Bahrain. The plan uses imperial measurements. In the lower left corner, the plan is indicated as having been drawn on 26 A...
The diagram, marked ‘Secret’ comprises a number of figures, all cross-sections, numbered as follows: 1. Cone & ball device 2. Tubing bomb 4. & 5. Wedging rollers Figure 3 (Xmas Tree) is on f 115. Each of the figures is annotated and marked with imperial measurements. In the lower l...
Genre/Subject Matter: Four folios of technical drawings of engines and parts, printed in Great Britain by the Bergius Co. Ltd. The diagrams on the first two folios (ff 158v, 159r) are cross-sections of the model ‘G4’ engine. The diagrams on the second two folios (ff 160r, 161v) are cross-se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
4 folios of pen and ink technical drawings on tracing paper
Genre/Subject Matter: Five folios of hand-drawn diagrams for the design of the Bandar Abbas Consulate Launch. Three rough drawings on folio 162r indicate a cross-section of the bow, a floor plan with measurements and a profile at an angle, in order to show the stern. A very rough profile on...
‘The Ian Keith Falconer Mission Hospital, located at Sheikh Othman, Aden’
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The photograph is part of a booklet entitled ‘Leper Survey in the Arabian Peninsula’ by Dr William Harold Storm, published January 1937 and reprinted from Leprosy Review, Vol. VIII, No.1. It shows a white-walled, three-storey hospital building. The hospital was named after Ian Keith-Falconer, a S...