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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1801
Title:: File 36/62 Quota of Tyres and Tubes for Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and several local merchants regarding the importation of tyres and inner tubes into Bahrain and the broader Gulf region. The file also contains correspondence - in Arabic with English translations - between the Political A...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 2 Apr 1944-7 Nov 1946
Extent:: 1 file (172 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1816
Title:: 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.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1947
Extent:: 1 file (19 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/75
Title:: File 27/12 III Data for the Trade Report for 1921/22
Scope & Content:: This file consists entirely of data (in the form of handwritten notes and tables) that has been used to compile the tables of statistics that appear in the 1921-1922 trade report for Kuwait, which is included in the previous volume in this sub-sub-series (IOR/R/15/5/74). The file contains brief...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1921?-1922?
Extent:: 1 file (50 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/183
Title:: File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence. Specifically, the majorit...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:: 1 file (183 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/187
Title:: File 4/7 II Shaikh of Kuwait's Visit to Arab States, Europe , Etc
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding proposed and actual trips abroad that were made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. This includes details of plans that were made for trips to Egypt, India, Iraq and England that do not appear to have ultimately materialised, and ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 13 Jul 1937-31 Oct 1949
Extent:: 1 file (171 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/105
Title:: 'File 2/24 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE (3R) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Murbat’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence related to the proposal of the Headquarters of the British Forces, Aden, to send by an Admiralty tanker 900 cases of petrol and fifty drums of oil to Murbat, Oman. The Sultan of Muscat and Oman was to give permission to the Wali of Murbat to arrange for the proced...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 26 Mar 1935-12 Oct 1935
Extent:: 1 file (15 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/156
Title:: File 6/10 Foreign Interests: Persian Government Affairs, Etc. & Miscellaneous Papers re. Persians
Scope & Content:: This file contains two items of correspondence that were sent from the British Legation in Tehran to a number of British diplomatic posts in the Persian Gulf including the Political Agency in Muscat. One relates to the resignation of the Persian Government in September 1933, the other to Iranian ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Sep 1933-10 Aug 1935
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/333
Title:: ‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. (2) Impounding of British passports by local Customs.’
Scope & Content:: The file contains two copies of a letter by Ralph Ponsonby Watts, the Political Agent, Muscat to Sayyid Shihab bin Faysal Al Bu Sa‘idi, representative of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman regarding the impounding of British subjects’ passports by the Muscat State officials.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Feb 1938-7 Mar 1938
Extent:: 1 file (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1873
Title:: ‘File B/10 V Claim against Lukoomal Devanmal at Dubai’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim for rent arrears, made in 1936 by Shaikh Ma’na bin Rashid [Shaikh Mani bin Rashid Āl Maktūm] and Muhammad Saleh Kadhem [Mohamed Saleh Kazim], the owner and landlord respectively of a shop in Dubai. Their claim is against Lukoomal...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 7 Aug 1936-6 Apr 1938
Extent:: 1 file (12 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1877
Title:: ‘File B/10 IX Claim of Maginmal Likumdas of Dubai’
Scope & Content:: The file contains two letters written in both Arabic and English, in July 1933. The first letter is a report from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain about a claim of fraud made by Maginmal Likumdas (also spelt Lakamdas) of Dubai, against a former slave called Sultan Al H...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 25 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1933
Extent:: 1 file (4 folios)

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