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531. IOR/R/15/2/434

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/434
Title:
File 10/11 Collection of lighting dues from BAPCO and CASOC
Scope & Content:
The file mainly contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident at Bushire and Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the lighting of Sitra Anchorage and its approaches. The file includes 'Return of Oil Tankers which visit Bahrain' in 1945-46 (folio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1945-15 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (164 folios)

532. IOR/R/15/2/440

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/440
Title:
File 10/14 [10/25] BAPCO'S WORKING OF ZELLAQ SALT DEPOSIT
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain on the rights for extracting salt from Zellaq, Bahrain, for the purpose of softening water. There is an index at the end of the volume (fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1945-22 Aug 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

533. IOR/R/15/2/570

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/570
Title:
File No. 17/22 R/T FACILITIES FOR GRAY MACKENZIE & COMPANY, LIMITED, BAHRAIN.
Scope & Content:
The file discusses a proposal by Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited to introduce portable wireless transmitting sets in order to keep in touch with their various branches on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. A series of file notes which were maintained as a record of the correspondence in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1947-27 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

534. IOR/R/15/2/712

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/712
Title:
‘File 28/21 Landing of enemy agents, war materials, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the undertaking of controls to ensure that enemy agents or war materials cannot be landed at British ports. A letter from the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (Commodore Cosmo Moray Graham) to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 22 January 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1940-26 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

535. IOR/R/15/2/482

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/482
Title:
'BAHRAIN - SAUDI ARABIA RELATIONS'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the sale of an International Emergency Food Council (IEFC) quota of wheat by Kuwait to Saudi Arabian merchants. The file consists of one telegram, forwarded by the Political Resident at Bahrain to the Political Agencies at Bahrain and Kuwait, from Alan Charles Trott, His Majest...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

536. IOR/R/15/2/505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/505
Title:
‘File 13/1 I Aerodrome at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and other papers related to the establishment of an aerodrome at Bahrain, for the use of the British air transport operator Imperial Airways Limited. The main correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior until No...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Aug 1932-26 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 volume (147 folios)

537. IOR/R/15/2/506

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/506
Title:
‘File 13/1 Silting of Dubai Creek’
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the file is related to the silting up of a creek at Dubai, which is of potential concern for flying boats following the Arab coast route, if they want to stop at Dubai. The file contains an assessment of the creek, made in 1941, by a chartered civil engineer named Bernard Wh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1939-7 Jun 1941
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

538. IOR/R/15/2/523

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/523
Title:
‘File 13/15 Air base at Dhahran’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the construction by the United States of an airfield at Dhahran in Saudi Arabia. The majority of the correspondence in the file was received by rather than sent from the Political Agency in Bahrain. Correspondence comes from the Political Residency, o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1944-5 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)

539. IOR/R/15/2/567

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/567
Title:
File No. 17/18 BAHRAIN-BUSHIRE CABLES.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the Secretary of State for India and Burma (Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence) regarding the Bushire to Bahrain submarine cable which had been laid in 1935 without the cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1946-19 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

540. IOR/R/15/2/627

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/627
Title:
File 23/2 Deportation of Omani Darwishes.
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the activities of certain Omanis in Bahrain (particularly three named men), who had 'set up as pseudo-religious leaders' and had encouraged practices characteristic of 'so-called Darwishes' [dervishes] (f 3), and the reaction to their presence in the state by the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1947-4 Mar 1947
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

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