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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name British Legation to Saudi Arabia, 1930-1947

41. IOR/R/15/2/470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/470
Title:
'11/8 OPENING A BANK AT AL KHOBAR'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns plans in 1944-45 and 1949 to open bank branches on the mainland of Saudi Arabia. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited, Bahrain; the A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1944-28 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

42. IOR/R/15/2/475

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/475
Title:
'DAMMAM DHAHRAN PROJECT'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns Aramco construction projects at Dammam [Dammām] and Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān], Saudi Arabia, including a proposal for a seven mile pier (folio 3) and 330 mile-long railway running from Dammām to Riyadh (folio 4). The file also includes 'Notes on visit to Dhahran - 26th/27th November,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1946-23 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

43. IOR/R/15/2/477

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/477
Title:
'PERMISSION FOR HINDU TRADERS TO VISIT QATIF'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the ability of Hindu traders to access the ports of Qatif [al-Qaṭīf] and Jubail [al-Jubayl] on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. Correspondents include: Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1932-1 Jul 1932
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

44. IOR/R/15/2/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/481
Title:
Activities of Foreign Agents in Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns suspicions of foreign agent activity in Saudi Arabia. Folios 2-5 and 8 concern suspicions held by C S Freebury of Gray Mackenzie and Company Limited at Ras Tanura, with regards to Mr Jean de Kuharski and Mr Pixton (Polish and English citizens respectively, who are said to be ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1947-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

45. IOR/R/15/2/483

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/483
Title:
'ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns economic developments in Saudi Arabia, including extracts from 'Saudi Arabia Monthly Economic Report. January/February 1948' (f 2) and March 1948 (f 7); extracts from 'Review of Middle East Press' dated 1 May 1948 (folio 3) and 28 May 1948 (folios 4-6); and a copy of an extract...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1948-4 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/2/499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/499
Title:
File 12/9 Visits to Bahrain of government officials and others
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the arrangements and programmes for visits to Bahrain of the following: the Minister at Jedda, Sir Andrew Ryan, visiting the Gulf; the Political Agent at Kuwait; Mr Rendel of the Foreign Office; Dr P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1935-6 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)

47. 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)

48. IOR/R/15/2/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/638
Title:
‘File 25/2 Saudi-Yemen Treaty’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of four separate communications from the British Legation at Jedda, enclosing translated summaries and copies of the Treaty of Taif, agreed between the Saudi ruler ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), and the Yemeni ruler Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamī...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jul 1934-11 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

49. IOR/R/15/2/877

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/877
Title:
File 39/6 (10/8) Oil concessions in W Arabia & Asir
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the British Agent at Sharjah, the British Legation at Jedda, the Foreign Office and the Political Resident at Bahrain. The correspondence discusses the possibility of an oil concession in Asir and Western Arabia by the Eastern and General Syndicate and Cal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1934-13 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

50. IOR/R/15/6/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/163
Title:
File 6/27 Foreign Interests: Sa'udi-Yemen Dispute
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the Saudi-Yemen War of 1934 covering its outbreak, key developments and its cessation with the Taif Treaty. The majority of this correspondence consists of updates on the war that were sent from the British Legation in Jeddah to Britain's various Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1934-26 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 file (85 folios)