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1. IOR/L/PS/12/1195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1195
Title:
Ext 546/47 'Dr Nuttall's visit to Middle East oil areas'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter, telegrams, report, notes and maps between Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison of the India Office and W D Monsell-Davis of the Ministry of Fuel and Power regarding the visit of Dr Nuttall to the Middle East. Dr Nuttall visited different oil companies and oilfields ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1947-30 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1303
Title:
Ext 609/48 'Monthly newsletters of Middle East civil air attaché (December 1947, January 1948)'
Scope & Content:
This file contains the monthly newsletter of the Commonwealth Air Transport Council's 'civil aviation in the Middle East' issued from the British Embassy in Cairo for the year 1948. The newsletter lists the Middle East's various locations serviced by air transport links. The majority of the newsl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1948-15 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2049

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2049
Title:
Coll 5/84(4) ‘Middle East Summaries from Ministry of Civil Aviation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of Ministry of Civil Aviation Middle East Intelligence Summaries – Numbers 1 to 8 – which have been supplied to the India Office. The summaries cover independent countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia), sovereignties previously u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1946-6 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/1220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1220
Title:
Ext 2617/47 'Tours of the Middle East (Mr Eden's tour)'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the visit of Anthony Eden and his son to the Middle East. Related matters of discussion include the following: approval of the visit from the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations; arrangements for the visit, including details of all the places...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1947-6 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3944

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3944
Title:
Coll 30/204 ‘Persian Gulf Oil. Future of oil in its relation to the Middle East – Admiralty Memorandum on –’
Scope & Content:
The file contains: a copy of an Admiralty memorandum, dated 11 October 1940, entitled ‘The Future of Oil in its Relation to the Middle East’; and correspondence related to the memorandum and to the arrival in Iran of eight German officers, who were suspected of being involved in activities again...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1940-27 Nov 1941
Extent:

1 file (31 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/1194A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1194A
Title:
Ext 392/47 'Persian Gulf: Bristol Freighter demonstration tour to Middle East, including Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters and notes. The letters are regarding the demonstration tour given by Airwork Limited of a Bristol Freighter aircraft in Europe and in the Middle East during March and April 1947. One of the letters has attached the itinerary of the tour in Europe and in the Middle Ea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1947-21 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3896A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3896A
Title:
Coll 30/160(S) 'C.I.D. Sub Committee for questions concerning Middle East: Measures to influence minor powers & Arab States whose assistance might be of value in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions concerning the Middle East. The Sub-Committee had been charged by the Committee of Imperial Defence to 'investigate and report on the measures which might be taken, either b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1938-18 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/760

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/760
Title:
Ext 5697/42 General Hurley, USA Minister to New Zealand: tour of Middle East, Russia, etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams from the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the British Minister of State in Cairo, and the British Embassy in Washington, regarding a tour conducted by General Hurley (USA Minister to New...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1942-20 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2052

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2052
Title:
Coll 5/85 ‘Airfield at Dharan for U.S.A.A.F.: Proposal to construct new airport at Bahrain (Hamala)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with proposals for the construction of an airfield – suitable for very heavy bombers – at Dhahran by the United States Army Air Transport Command as a wartime necessity, and applications from the United States to the United Kingdom for the latters support in obtaining permi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1944-14 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2110
Title:
Coll 6/43 'Pan Arab Congress 1933. Attitude of H.M.G. to a Pan Arab Movement'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the British Government's response to the Pan-Arab movement during the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the correspondence refers to the prospect of an Arab federation, although the use of the word 'federation' is noted in some of the correspondence as being a mistranslation of the ori...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Dec 1932-5 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (570 folios)