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1991. IOR/L/PS/12/1966

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1966
Title:
Coll 5/20 ‘Air Route to India – Arab Coast Secn: Negotiations with Trucial Sheikhs’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely made up of correspondence, with occasional internal India Office notes, and records of inter-departmental meetings. The subject matter is the establishment of an aerodrome on the Trucial Coast to facilitate the transfer of Imperial Airways' Europe-India route from Southern Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1932-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (636 folios)

1992. IOR/L/PS/12/2043

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2043
Title:
Coll 5/81 ‘Facilities for U.S. Air Transport Corps at Bahrein and Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the provision of facilities for the United States Air Transport Command at both Bahrain and Sharjah. This includes policy and strategy discussions over how best to maintain British control of the Arabian Coast Air Route; British planners feared that the United...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1943-9 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (144 folios)

1993. IOR/L/PS/12/3598

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3598
Title:
Coll 29/37 'Bandar Abbas: appointment of Vice Consul; status and jurisdiction; grant of special pension to Mr G A Richardson Indian Medical Department after 30 years' service in the Foreign and Political Department'
Scope & Content:
The file mostly concerns appointments at the Bandar Abbas Consulate. The file contains: appointment of George Alexander Richardson as Vice-Consul with local rank of Consul at Bandar Abbas, in 1930proposed grant of a special retiring pension to George Alexander RichardsonGovernment of India's pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1930-19 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (134 folios)

1994. IOR/L/PS/12/3610

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3610
Title:
Coll 29/45(3A) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: Major M P O'C Tandy'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns condition of service of Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy, leaving his post of Political Agent in Kuwait in March 1948. The file also covers arrangements for Tandy's successor. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Secretary o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jul 1947-12 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

1995. IOR/L/PS/12/3698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3698
Title:
Coll 29/117 'Air conditioning of the offices and residences of officers in Persia and the Persian Gulf: including Khorramshahr and the shipping office at Abadan'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the provision of air-conditioning equipment in the buildings of the Agencies in the Persian Gulf. The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Office, the British Consulate at Khorramshahr, the British Embassy at Tehran, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Apr 1945-23 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

1996. IOR/L/PS/12/563B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/563B
Title:
Ext 5000/41(14) 'PERSIAN SITUATION: MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of miscellaneous reports regarding internal affairs in Persia towards the end of the occupation of the country by British and Soviet troops. Most of the correspondence is between His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard, succeeded by John Helier Le Rouget...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Mar 1946-4 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (304 folios)

1997. IOR/L/PS/12/2078

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2078
Title:
Coll 6/12 'Railways: Hejaz Railway: Reconditioning of.'
Scope & Content:
This volume largely consists of copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office and correspondence. The correspondence concerns the possibility of the Hejaz railway being reconditioned and extended. A large part of the correspondence discusses the issue of ownership regarding the Hejaz railway. Muc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-10 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (515 folios)

1998. IOR/L/PS/12/2070

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2070
Title:
Coll 6/7(3) 'The Yemen: Relations between H.M.G. and the Imam.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and Imam Yehia bin Muhammad Hamid Uddin [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn, Imam of Yemen]. Much of the correspondence discusses the progress of treaty negotiations between the British Government and the Imam (a treaty was eventually signed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Sep 1933-22 Feb 1934
Extent:
1 volume (371 folios)

1999. IOR/L/PS/12/2954

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2954
Title:
Coll 20/3(2) 'Muscat: Relations with H. M. G.; Commercial Treaty: Revision of'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, minutes, and draft correspondence relating to the revision of the Anglo-Muscat Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891. The revision is based upon the proposals (folios 601-56) of Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1937-8 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 volume (657 folios)

2000. IOR/L/PS/12/4117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4117
Title:
Coll 35/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: postal administration'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the postal service in Persia and in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: Review of postal service in Persia [Iran] and in the Persian Gulf, with complaints of inefficiencies since their transfer under Persian administration, 1923 Bushire - Shiraz mail service, 1923 Proposed ap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jun 1923-13 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (204 folios)