Distinctive Features: Shows Gazabia and Zulma Bad villages and surrounding area with landing ground outlined in red. Properties labelled for reference with owners' names and measurements reported.
‘Sharjah. Proposed Additional Accommodation to Rest House’
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Distinctive Features: Detailed plan drawn by James Taylor Gray for Design Branch of the Air Ministry showing existing buildings and proposed extensions to RAF base in Shargah. Premises labelled for reference with dimensions given; proposed additions indicated in red.
Sketch map showing Motor Road from Kuwait to Riyadh
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'Sketch map showing Motor Road from Kuwait to Riyadh', on three sheets, prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, CIE Chief Local Representative of Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait.
Sketch map showing Motor Road from Kuwait to Riyadh
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'Sketch map showing Motor Road from Kuwait to Riyadh', on three sheets, prepared by Lieutenant Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, CIE Chief Local Representative of Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait.
Sketch of Doha and the proposed site of Decca station
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Distinctive Features: Shows Doha and the nearby area, including the proposed site of Decca station. Enclosed is a letter from the General Manager of Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited requesting to the Sheikh of Qatar the lease of the land for an electronic survey Station, on 22 May 1949 (IOR/R...
‘Comparative tire [tyre] sections used on Fords in Arabia’
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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...
‘File 28/19 Export of oil and other articles from the Persian Gulf to Italian East Africa (dhow traffic)’
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The file comprises correspondence and reports relating to outward trade from Bahrain and the ports of the Trucial Coast to the ports of the Red Sea and East Africa, in response to concerns that some cargoes (and in particular oil) were reaching Italian East Africa and Italian-occupied British So...
File 1/26 Scheme for the Maintenance of Records of Service of King's Commissioned Officers of the Indian Services and Lady Nurses of the QAMNSI
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Correspondence from the Military Accounts Department, Western Command, Quetta to Lieutenant Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent, Bahrain, requesting particulars of his service so that the Department could open a record of service card for him in accordance with Army Department regulations ...
File 10/23 Corr. re. certain Japanese cotton singlets imported into Bahrain by Messrs Trikamdas and Co, and shown as "Made in England"
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Correspondence between the Officiating Political Agent, Bahrain (Meredith Worth); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire (Trenchard Craven William Fowle); the Department of Overseas Trade, London; the firm of C Trikamdas and Company, Bahrain; the Director of Customs and Port Officer,...
Map indicating the SS Begum’s touching of the Rennie Shoals [Mushţ Rinnī]
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The map accompanies explanatory notes in the file (f 33) dated 9 April 1933, and indicates the intended and actual courses of the SS Begum, with nautical measurements, leading up to its touching of the Rennie Shoals [Mushţ Rinnī] in the Persian Gulf, approximately fifty miles north of Bahrain. T...