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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Weapons Name Admiralty, 1708-1964

1. IOR/L/PS/12/2182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2182
Title:
Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provision...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Aug 1926-28 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 volume (591 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2189
Title:
Coll 7/21 'Persian Gulf: Arms Traffic Proclamation and Notification of 1898, by the rulers of Muscat, Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait]'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the negotiations at the Geneva Disarmament Conference, and British concerns over the rights of Britain and Persia [Iran] to search ships and dhows of the Trucial Coast states within territorial waters. The file opens with a communication from the Political Resident in the Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1933-31 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2195
Title:
Coll 7/27 'Muscat: supply of Vickers-Berthier Machine Rifle to Muscat State; supply of guns and ammunition to Sultan'
Scope & Content:
The file contains two folders of correspondence regarding requests for weapons and ammunition made by the Sultan of Muscat (Sa'īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa'īd) to the British and American Governments. The file includes dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in each part by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1933-30 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (113 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3937

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3937
Title:
Coll 30/196 ‘Persian Gulf Defence. Muscat. War Subsidy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the defence of Muscat. It includes papers regarding: the position of the Sultan of Muscat in the event of the outbreak of war (since he was an independent sovereign and therefore his state would not automatically be on the side of the British Empire in war)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1938-8 Mar 1951
Extent:
1 file (430 folios)