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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, oil company, 1920-1939

1. IOR/L/PS/10/994

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/994
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 5-5A 'OIL QATAR AND MUSCAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume is comprised of two parts (IOR/L/PS/10/994/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/994/2) and contains telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Qatar and Oman. IOR/L/PS/10/994/1 consists of memoranda, letters, and corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1933
Extent:
1 volume (338 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/995

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/995
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Bahrain.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the assigning of a concession to prospect for and exploit oil in Bahrain. Topics discussed include: The terms under which Major Frank Holmes, Chief Local Representative, was allowed to reside in Bahrain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-1933
Extent:
1 volume (508 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/998

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/998
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the precise terms of the oil concession in Bahrain and in particular issues regarding the translation of the lease from English to Arabic. Also included are some article cuttings (ff 51-62) from petroleum ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1934-Jun 1936
Extent:
1 file (395 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/999
Title:
File 2794/1921 'PARTS 7, 8 & 9 BAHRAIN OIL CONCESSION, WIRELESS, TELEPHONES, AND CUSTOMS DUTIES &c.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the import of certain items (such as refrigerators, furniture and motor cars) by the Bahrain Petroleum Company, the installation of radio-telephones and correspondence on the oil concessions in the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1935
Extent:
1 volume (496 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2127
Title:
Coll 6/60 'Saudi Arabia: Oil Concessions in Asir and the Farsan Islands.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns prospective Saudi oil concessions for Asir and the Farsan Islands. In a telegram to the Foreign Office, dated 4 June 1933, His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan) reports that the recent Hasa concession, which was granted by the Saudi Government to the California Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1933-6 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B413
Title:
Oil Interests in the Persian Gulf. Communicated by the Board of Trade and revised to 28 June 1928.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum outlining oil concessions in Persia and Iraq held by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Standard Oil, and the Turkish Petroleum Company. It covers the Arabian littoral of the Gulf, and highlights the restrictions placed on Arab rulers by treaty engagements from granting oil concessions wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B426

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B426
Title:
‘Oil concession signed by the Shaikh of Bahrein in favour of the Eastern and General Syndicate on the 2nd December 1925 (as revised up to 12th January 1934).’
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of the Bahrain (spelt Bahrein throughout) oil concession, signed by Shaikh Hamad bin Shaikh Issa Al Khalifah [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] and the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited in 1925, with revisions in 1934. The agreement is marked ‘India Office’ in print on the front cover...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1933
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)