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4701. IOR/L/PS/12/3924

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3924
Title:
Coll 30/186 'Oil: Koweit Territorial Waters. Jurisdiction over the sub-soil beneath the sea. Off-Shore Oil in the Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the interest of the Kuwait Oil Company in exploring for submarine oil deposits beyond the limits of Kuwait's territorial waters, and the issue of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf generally, in the light of the United States Government's proclamation of 1945 concerning the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1939-12 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (366 folios)

4702. IOR/L/PS/12/3947

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3947
Title:
Coll 30/207 'Bahrein oil: Changes in oil output from refinery at Bahrein and Ras Tanura. Lighterage difficulties & staffing problems of Gray Mackenzie and Co Ltd at Bahrein and Kuweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file covers various topics concerned with the oil industry at Bahrain, and the activities of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). The papers include: variations in the oil output of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, as a result of commercial and wartime conditions, 1940-42, including corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1940-16 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

4703. IOR/L/PS/18/B22/1b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B22/1b
Title:
A Letter from Louis Mallet, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding the Italian Occupation of Assab Bay
Scope & Content:
A letter about the Italian occupation of Assab Bay, in which the author, Louis Mallet, India Office, suggests that a response to the Italian Ambassador be phrased only in general terms, as historical precedents have rendered the British position ambiguous. The author goes on to suggest that the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1880
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

4704. IOR/L/PS/18/B381/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B381/3
Title:
No. 1. Concession pour la Navigation sur le Tigre et l'Euphrate.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a concession for navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which sets out terms and conditions. It was signed by the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire (Ibrahim Hakki Pasha) and Baron Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay) – on behalf of the Secretary of State for India, on 12 Dece...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Dec 1913
Extent:

1 item (7 folios)

4705. IOR/L/PS/18/B390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B390
Title:
Memorandum. (a) the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. (b) His Highness the Sultan Saiyid Taimur Bin Faisal bin Turki.
Scope & Content:
Typescript memorandum (marked 'Book Copy' in the top left corner of the first page) giving information about the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman under the following headings: Territory, Historical, Physical Features, Climate, Population, Products and Trade, Religion, and Government (folios 150-154)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1928
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

4706. IOR/L/PS/18/B452

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B452
Title:
His Excellency SHEIKH HAMAD BIN SHEIKH ISSA AL KHALIFAH SHEIKH of BAHREIN AND THE BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED. LEASE [COPY]
Scope & Content:
The file is a copy of a commercial lease between Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Sheikh of Bahrein, and the Bahrein Petroleum Company, in which the Sheikh grants to the company the exclusive right for fifty-five years to drill for, extract, treat, refine, and deal with petroleum products and n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

4707. IOR/L/PS/18/C27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C27
Title:
'From Captain the Honourable G. C. Napier, on Special Duty in Persia, to the Political Secretary, India Office, Westminster, dated London, 30th July 1879'
Scope & Content:
The letter is a report by Captain George Campbell Napier on his journey to the Turkoman [Turcoman] frontier of Persia in 1878. It outlines his attempts to facilitate the submission of the Merve [Mary] and the Akhal [Ahal] Turkomans to Persia, as an alternative to their annexation by Russia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1879
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

4708. IOR/L/PS/20/199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/199
Title:
A note on survey work in Persia, and survey instruments and equipment.
Scope & Content:
This note was compiled by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon (Division of the Chief of the Staff), and relates to survey work in Persia. Gibbon discusses the survey instruments and equipment which should be used, and offers advice on how to better undertake survey work in the area, for example, by appe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

4709. IOR/L/PS/10/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/11
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 4 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the financial situation in Persia and proposals put forward in 1910 and 1911 for loans to the Persian Government from private sources. Initial offers of loans to the Persian Government were made by Messrs M Samuel and Company, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a consortium le...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Jul 1910-12 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (511 folios)

4710. IOR/L/PS/10/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/57
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: General negotiations 1908-10.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1903-1907. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1910
Extent:
1 volume (391 folios)

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