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41. IOR/R/15/1/285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/285
Title:
14/225 I B 37 Unrest at Dubai and Trucial Coast Policy
Scope & Content:
Correspondence dealing with the unrest at Dubai due to the attempts on the life of Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktum by his cousins Shaikhs Rashid and Buti and their efforts to usurp him. The file includes a genealogical map of the family of Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktoum. Letters discuss how the British govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Nov 1934-12 Mar 1936
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

42. IOR/R/15/1/462

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/462
Title:
35/160 (A 72) Murder of Indian by Shihuh
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the case of a British Indian traveller murdered by the Shihuh [al-Shiḥūḥ] as he was making his way from Karachi to Dubai via Muscat and Dibah [possibly Dibba, at the northern tip of the Arabian Peninsula]. Issues discussed include: The itinerary of the British Indian who...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Feb 1936-9 Dec 1937
Extent:
1 volume (224 folios)

43. IOR/R/15/1/581

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/581
Title:
File 61/14 V (D 49) Nejd and 'Iraq, Relations between
Scope & Content:
The volume contains telegrams, letters, and reports relating to affairs between Najd, Kuwait, and Iraq. Most of the correspondence is between Lionel Haworth, the Political Resident in Bushire, Henry Dobbs, the High Commissioner in Baghdad, Ibn Sa'ud, the King of the Hejaz and Najd, Leo Amery, th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1928-31 Mar 1928
Extent:

1 volume (291 folios)

44. IOR/R/15/1/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/599
Title:
File 61/20 I (D 75) Meeting between Kings of Iraq and Nejd
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to a meeting between King Faisal of Iraq and King Ibn Sa‘ud of Najd and Hejaz, overseen by the British. The main correspondents are Sidney Webb, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Francis Humphrys, High Commissioner of Iraq, Harold Dickson, Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
7 Jan 1930-28 Nov 1930
Extent:
1 volume (208 folios)

45. IOR/R/15/1/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/671
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/7-I B.34. OIL TRUCIAL COAST'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Percy Gordon Loch), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (Maurice Clausen, John Charles Walton) and Edward Henry Ommaney Elkington, General Manager of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 May 1935-4 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

46. IOR/R/15/1/698

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/698
Title:
'C-85. 86/30 - I WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BAHRAIN AND SAUDI ARABIA'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence regarding applications from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), represented primarily by Hamilton R Ballantyne and Max Weston Thornburg, for permission to install wireless apparatus and operate wireless te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1938-6 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (195 folios)

47. IOR/R/15/2/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/162
Title:
File 1/A/39 I GUN RUNNING and PIRACY
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns gun-running and piracy in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle); the Political Agent, Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Hugh Weightman); the Residency Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1934-4 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 volume (331 folios)

48. IOR/R/15/2/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/163
Title:
File 1/A/39 II GUN-RUNNING AND PIRACY.
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns gun-running and piracy in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Residency Agent, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Muscat; and the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf (SNOPG). The papers c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1938-11 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

49. IOR/R/15/2/519

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/519
Title:
‘File 13/10 Radio Watches with Civil Air Craft in flight and Installation of Low Power Radio Station for Local Aircraft Control.’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents concern the use of radio communications at Bahrain to communicate with aircraft in flight. The first half of the file, covering the period November 1940 to January 1941, relates to a request to the Bahrain Political Agent, from British Overseas Airways Corporation’s (BOAC) Sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1940-11 Mar 1944
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

50. IOR/R/15/2/540

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/540
Title:
File 14/5 Visits of German Agents
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the visits of suspected German agents to the Persian Gulf region. The main correspondents include: Tom Hickinbotham (later Hugh Weightman), Political Agent at Bahrain; Trenchard Craven William Fowle (later Charles Geoffrey Prior), Political Resident a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1937-2 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)