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Subject Military equipment

21. IOR/R/15/2/718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/718
Title:
‘File 28/28-(i) Military requirements (purchases etc. for the army)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the acquisition of oil industry equipment and supplies from the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for use by British military headquarters at Basra, Iraq (later referr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-29 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (305 folios)

22. IOR/R/15/2/747

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/747
Title:
‘File 28/56 Motor cycles for Bahrain police’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence relating to the purchase of motorcycles for use by the Defence Police in Bahrain, with details of the motorcycles requested by the Political Agent at Bahrain (three with sidecars and three without, ff 2-3), and negotiations between the Political Agent an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1939-12 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

23. IOR/R/15/2/755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/755
Title:
‘File 28/64 Exemptions from customs dues on oil companies’ stores’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to customs and transit duties payable on equipment and stores owned by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ) that are passing from Qatar through Bahrain, as a consequence of the shutdown of the Company’s operations in Qatar in 1942. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1942-19 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

24. IOR/R/15/2/1817

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1817
Title:
File 36/107 Prohibition Regarding Sale of Service Property
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the sale of surplus military equipment (including vehicles) and other supplies by British military forces in Bahrain and Sharjah after the end of the Second World War. These supplies were purchased by the Government of Bahrain and a number of other p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1946-10 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (222 folios)

25. Photo 1253/1(95)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(95)
Title:
There are 16,000 US Marines aboard Camp Leatherneck spread over 1,600 acres. Empty shipping containers are used as storage, wind breaks or blast walls. In May 2010 a mysterious fire, that may have been sabotage, destroyed 9 acres of containers. It burned so furiously that fire fighters even lost two of their fire engines. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of vehicles and shipping containers; a reflection in a body of water is in the foreground. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 1253/1(102)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(102)
Title:
Waiting for a helicopter, Camp Bastion, Helmand. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of the sky with shipments on the ground; a man is standing on one of the shipments. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromog...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 1253/1(103)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(103)
Title:
Preparations for a sexy dancing and comedy show organised by the Morale, Welfare and Recreation unit at Camp Leatherneck. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of a row of chairs, a military vehicle and men waiting in the background. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic print...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item