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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Persian Gulf, Asia

301. IOR/L/PS/12/1999, f 50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1999, f 50
Title:
‘METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS IN IRAN AND ARABIA’
Scope & Content:
The map illustrates the locations of meteorological stations in Persia, the Persian Gulf, and along the Arabian Peninsula. It divides these stations into three categories as follows: stations reporting observations, stations not reporting observations, and stations to be closed down.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 map

302. IOR/L/PS/12/2026

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2026
Title:
Coll 5/64 ‘Prohibition of private flights (foreign) over Persian Gulf territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains requests for authorisation to undertake private flights over the Arab Coast route – the air route over Kuwait, Bahrain, Sharjah, and Muscat. These requests are entirely from French nationals and are submitted to the Foreign Office on their behalf by the French Embassy in London...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Dec 1938-29 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

303. IOR/L/PS/12/2039

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2039
Title:
Coll 5/77 ‘Muscat: including activities of U.S. Air Force and Pan-American Airways in the Middle East’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the operations of Pan American Airlines in the Middle East; British officials were concerned that the airline was using the war as a pretext for commercial penetration of British controlled territories. The file therefore covers the militarisation of Pan American Airli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1941-19 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

304. IOR/L/PS/12/2047

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2047
Title:
Coll 5/84(2) ‘Chicago Agreement: Position of Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms with regard to post war Civil Aviation; International Civil Aviation Organisation Meeting in Cairo 1946. Tandy's Deputation.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to the position of the Gulf States – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Bahrain, Dubai, Kalba, Kuwait, Ra's al-Khaymah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaywayn – under the Convention on International Civil Aviation (1946), also known as the Chicago Convention. Much of the correspondence is c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1945-20 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (431 folios)

305. 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)

306. IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2160B, f 41
Title:
'MAP OF ARABIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
Scope & Content:
Map depicting the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, with the south-eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula on one side and southern Persia [Iran] and south-western India [Pakistan] on the other. The map indicates hydrology, boundaries, settlements and routes, and provides some indication of relie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1932
Extent:
1 map on 4 sheets

307. 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)

308. 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)

309. IOR/L/PS/12/2193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2193
Title:
Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following: the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

310. IOR/L/PS/12/2206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2206
Title:
Coll 7/38 'Arms, Ammunition & Arms Traffic. Issue of licences for the export of arms to Persian Gulf.'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding applications for permission to import arms, ammunition, industrial explosives and related equipment into Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar. The primary correspondents are the Under Secretary of State for India, the Board of Trade Imports and Exports Licensing Section, the War Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1935-7 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (352 folios)