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421. IOR/R/15/2/279

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/279
Title:
‘File 7/13 Air facilities – Qatar’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a request from the RAF to the Political Agent in Bahrain, to install wireless observation posts [WOUs] on the north-east coast of the Qatar peninsula. Permission was sought from and given by the Shaikh of Qatar, and assistance in the set-up of the post...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1942-5 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

422. IOR/R/15/2/282

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/282
Title:
‘File 7/17 Additional aerodromes – Manama’
Scope & Content:
The file’s correspondence concerns plans for a new aerodrome at Manama, in order to maintain the air route through the Gulf while the runway at Muharraq was concreted to allow heavy bombers to land there. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1944-9 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

423. IOR/R/15/2/455

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/455
Title:
File 10/31 BAPCO reservations in Manama
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident at Bushire, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representatives on reservations for sand deposits near Askar. There are some maps within the file: 'RE...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1948-5 Feb 1950
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

424. IOR/R/15/2/495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/495
Title:
File 12/12 Malpractices of Persian Customs Officials
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to two incidents in which Persian customs officials were accused of malpractice, one at Lingah in 1947 (ff 2-4) and another in Suzeh in 1950 (ff 5-6).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1947-20 Jun 1950
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

425. IOR/R/15/2/496

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/496
Title:
File 12/13 Visits of Persian Officials to Bahrain
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to two topics: 1) concerns that Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Taliqani, the Governor of Bushire, may attempt to land at Bahrain while passing through on a steamer ship from Lingah in 1933 (ff 2-6). 2) discussions regarding the releva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1933-21 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

426. IOR/R/15/2/825

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/825
Title:
File 32/22 Bahrain Government's Facilities for Dealing with Accidents
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding concerns that the Government of Bahrain did not possess the appropriate medical and emergency facilities to deal with large-scale accidents in the country. These concerns were raised by W B Steele, the Residency Surgeon in Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1947-20 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

427. IOR/R/15/2/830

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/830
Title:
File 32/28 Representation of Bahrain in Foreign Countries
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent in Bahrain. In the letter, Hay informs Pelly that Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain had recently told him that a man in Coc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

428. IOR/R/15/2/902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/902
Title:
File 42/4 Assistant State Engineer, Bahrain Government
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the appointment of J Hudson (previously of Messrs. Holloway Bros in Qatar) as Assistant State Engineer for the Government of Bahrain in 1949. The correspondence is primarily between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and the Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1948-5 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

429. IOR/R/15/2/923

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/923
Title:
'P.A's Private file (Major T. Hickinbotham C.I.E., O.B.E.)'
Scope & Content:
This file contains Arabic language correspondence between Major Tom Hickinbotham, Political Agent in Bahrain, and numerous Bahraini figures, including members of the ruling family (such as Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, the Ruler of Bahrain) and several prominent merchants. The correspon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1943-14 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

430. IOR/R/15/2/1102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1102
Title:
File 3/18 Annex Political Agent's launch, lavatory
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two types of information relating to a lavatory for the Political Agent's launch: a twenty page brochure from John Dowton and Co and then six hand drawn technical diagrams for installation of lavatory in the Political Agent's launch.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 volume (26 folios)

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