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1. IOR/R/15/2/1341-1364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1341-1364
Title:
File 10: Trade and Commerce
Scope & Content:
The Trade and Commerce files of the Political Agency Bahrain cover the following subjects: monthly trade statistics, 1938-44; trade reports and related papers for years ending 1925-42; statistics of imports and exports and shipping figures for years ending 1943-49 inclusive; and a variety of ad h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1926-1950
Extent:
24 files and volumes (3,935 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1352

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1352
Title:
File 10/8 Overseas trade enquiries
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Agency and customs officials in Bahrain, and United Kingdom companies relating to trade in Bahrain. The file includes papers concerning an upsurge in orders for bicycles in Bahrain, 1929. Other commodities covered include mother of pearl and the pearl trade, L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1929-29 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 file (249 Folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1348

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1348
Title:
File 10/4 V Trade Reports
Scope & Content:
Trade reports and statistics of imports and exports with related correspondence. The file includes amendments to parts one and two of report on economic and trade conditions in Bahrain for year ended 31 March 1942, and detailed statistics of imports and exports, with shipping figures, for the yea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1945-11 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (389 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1363

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1363
Title:
File 10/27 Bahrain. General Merchants' Association. Correspondence - re.
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the Bahrain General Merchants' Association, which was a self-constituted body of merchants. The file includes a letter from the Honorary Secretary, Bahrain General Merchants' Association, to the Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), dated 10 August 1939 announcing the for...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Aug 1939-17 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1356

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1356
Title:
File 10/20 Enquiries re: cement
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to imports of cement into Bahrain. The file includes enquiries from The Cement Marketing Company Ltd, London, about the amount of cement imported into Bahrain for each of the years 1929-1933, to which the Agency provided statistics in response. The enquiries were then disc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1931-17 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1357

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1357
Title:
File 10/21 Enquiries re: sugar-beet
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to imports of sugar into Bahrain. The British Agent was keen to promote imports of British sugar beet into Bahrain in the face of foreign competition, particularly from Japan. The file includes a letter from the Political Agent (Percy Gordon Loch) to the Political Resident (Trench...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jan 1932-12 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1361

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1361
Title:
File 10/25 American Trade Interests in Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file consists of letters from the American Consular Service, American Consulate General, Baghdad, Iraq, requesting statistical information on United States interests and trade in Bahrain, and specific information relating to motor vehicles, January 1936 - April 1938, together with replies fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1936-27 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (43 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1362

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1362
Title:
File 10/26 Financial status of commercial firms and merchants
Scope & Content:
Enquiries, reports and miscellaneous information about trading companies and merchants in Bahrain. The file describes the financial position and reputation of many individual companies and merchants and assesses their reliability as importers and agents. The term 'morality' is used as a synonym ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1936-16 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (262 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1344
Title:
File 10/4 I Trade Reports
Scope & Content:
Trade Reports and related correspondence, Bahrain. The file includes trade reports, Bahrain, for the financial years 1924-25 to 1931-32, inclusive, with associated correspondence. The reports list twenty-five countries from which imports were received (notably India, Iraq, Arabia, and Persia) und...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1926-27 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 volume (547 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1345

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1345
Title:
File 10/4 II Trade Reports
Scope & Content:
Trade Reports of the Bahrain Islands for the financial years ended 31 March 1933 to 31 March 1936 inclusive, with associated correspondence. The reports list imports from twenty-nine countries (notably India, Iraq, Persia, England [the United Kingdom], Japan, Germany, Africa, Belgium and the Unit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1933-27 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)