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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Weapons

11. IOR/L/PS/12/2176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2176
Title:
Coll 7/7 'North West Frontier: fighting strengths and armament returns; prices of European rifles in tribal territory'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of regular statistical reports on the price of European-manufactured weapons within the North-West Frontier Province [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], as well as statistics and assessments on the fighting strength of the tribes within the province. These were produced by the Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1912-15 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (341 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/2177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2177
Title:
Coll 7/8 'Afghanistan: import of arms by private traders; import of sporting guns'
Scope & Content:
The file contains requests to import arms and ammunition to Afghanistan via India, received from the Afghan Government. It also contains related correspondence regarding export licences, formal procedures, and arrangements for the transport of arms, conducted between: the Karachi Collector of Cu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1931-11 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/2178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2178
Title:
Coll 7/9 'Export of arms to China'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding requests for war materials received from the Chinese Government in Nanking [Nanjing]. Correspondence dated 1932 concerns enquiries received from the Commonwealth Governments in Australia and Canada, asking for information on the British position reg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1932-25 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/2179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2179
Title:
Coll 7/10 'China (Yunnan): Export of arms to China via Burma'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request from the Governor of Yunnan Province to transport arms, ammunition and planes to China via Burma [Myanmar]. The materials consisted of British surplus war stock, and were supplied by Arnhold & Company Limited. The correspondence is between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1932-6 Feb 1933
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/2180

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2180
Title:
Coll 7/11 'Aden Protectorate: treatment of applications to export arms to-'
Scope & Content:
The file opens with a communication received from the HM Consulate-General at Batavia [Jakarta], informing the Aden Political Resident (Bernard Reilly) of formal approaches made to the Consulate to export arms and ammunition from Java [Indonesia] to Mokalla [Mukalla]. The communication encloses ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1932-28 Apr 1932
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/2181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2181
Title:
Coll 7/12 'Chinese Turkestan; import of arms via India'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding requests for arms and ammunition received by the Government of India from the Government at Sinkiang Province [Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]. The principal correspondents are the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, the India Office Political...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1932-17 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (157 folios)

17. 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)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/2183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2183
Title:
Coll 7/15 'North West Frontier, Baluchistan: fighting strength and armaments of tribes'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of statements showing the fighting strengths and armaments of tribes of the North-West Frontier Province [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa] and Baluchistan [Balochistān], which were forwarded to the India Office by the Governor General in Baluchistan. The coverage is as follows: 1921-1925...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1924-31 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (134 folios)

19. 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)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/2191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2191
Title:
Coll 7/23 'Afghanistan: sale of 5000 rifles with 3 million rounds of ammunition to the Afghan Government by the Government of India, 1935'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and minutes regarding requests by the Afghan Government for arms, ammunition and aircraft to be supplied by either the British or Indian Governments. The material predominantly consists of telegrams sent to the India Office by HM Minister at Kabul (William Kerr F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1934-13 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)