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81. IOR/R/15/2/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/671
Title:
‘File 28/1 R Reports from C.A.S.O.C. A.R.P. etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to an enquiry made by the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), dated 27 October 1940, to the Political Agency in Bahrain, asking if British aircraft were flown over the company’s refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia on the night of 25/26 October 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1940-29 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

82. IOR/R/15/2/680

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/680
Title:
‘File 28/5 II License for export of oil from Bahrain. Rules, Regulations & correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the issue of licences (also referred to as permits) for petroleum exports from Bahrain during the Second World War, and to questions over the continuation of the issue of the same licences in the immediate post-war period. Correspondents i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1940-9 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

83. IOR/R/15/2/692

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/692
Title:
‘File 28/10 (a) War. Foreigners, Anti-British Activities, etc. Father Irzio Luigi Magliacani (Roman Catholic Priest in Bahrain)’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to the presence in Bahrain during the War of an Italian Roman Catholic priest, Irzio Luigi Magliacani. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Arn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
11 May 1931-22 Aug 1948
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

84. IOR/R/15/2/733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/733
Title:
‘File 28/38 Powers to appoint approved members of the Company’s [Petroleum Concessions Limited] staff in Qatar as special police officers’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the institution of a regulation, created under the Qatar Order in Council (1939) enabling the Political Agent at Bahrain to appoint specified employees of Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) as Special Police Officers in Qatar. The princip...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1947-4 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

85. IOR/R/15/2/664

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/664
Title:
‘File 28/1 L I BAPCO refinery guards’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and copies of agreements, relating to the recruitment of a defence force in Bahrain, charged with the security and defence of the Bahrain Petroleum Company’s (BAPCO) refinery and oil fields. The principal correspondents in the file are the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Dec 1939-25 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

86. IOR/R/15/2/687

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/687
Title:
‘File 28/7 I War: Propaganda: local opinion’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises reports and correspondence concerning: the dissemination of pro-British and Allied propaganda in Bahrain and the wider Persian Gulf region, as prepared and coordinated by the Publicity Office in Bahrain; the reception of anti-British propaganda in Bahrain, chiefly via radio ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 May 1940-15 Mar 1942
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

87. IOR/R/15/2/652

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/652
Title:
‘File 28/1 A Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited – standing orders for their guards’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises letters sent by representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), generally the Chief Local Representative, John S Black, to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), enclosing copies of standing orders issued to their guards and security personnel for the defen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1939-25 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

88. IOR/R/15/2/663

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/663
Title:
‘File 28/1 K III Defence of oil field & refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition (‘oil denial’) of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and the subsequent abandonment of these de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1942-10 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)

89. IOR/R/15/2/719

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/719
Title:
‘File 28/28-(ii) Military requirements. Purchases from oil companies. Coke’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to: i) the export of petroleum industry equipment from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) at Al Khobar [Al-Khubar], including: baker cement retainers to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1942-5 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

90. IOR/R/15/2/755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/755
Title:
‘File 28/64 Exemptions from customs dues on oil companies’ stores’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to customs and transit duties payable on equipment and stores owned by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ) that are passing from Qatar through Bahrain, as a consequence of the shutdown of the Company’s operations in Qatar in 1942. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1942-19 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)