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4471. IOR/L/PS/12/1982

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1982
Title:
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of Private Flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence (mainly telegrams) on two subjects. One subject is proposals for charter flights between Aden and Bombay by Ethiopian Airways, on behalf of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The other subject is the development of Czechoslovak civil aviation and Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1948-19 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

4472. IOR/L/PS/12/1983

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1983
Title:
Coll 5/32 ‘Air-route to India (Arab Coast): Possibility of establishing a landing ground on Das Island’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office, Harold Spencer Kerby of the Air Ministry, and Trenchard Craven William Fowle as the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It documents the decision not to proceed with using Das Island as an emergency landing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1934-29 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

4473. IOR/L/PS/12/1984

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1984
Title:
Coll 5/33 ‘Air-route to India: Landing ground at Gwadur; Muscat Civil Air Agreement’
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes and correspondence related to the use of the Gwadur Aerodrome by Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force. It also therefore covers the negotiations surrounding the Muscat Civil Air Agreement (1934), and subsequent amendments to modify the level of rent paid to the Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1933-5 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (360 folios)

4474. IOR/L/PS/12/1985

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1985
Title:
Coll 5/33(2) ‘AIR ROUTE TO INDIA: MUSCAT CIVIL AIR AGREEMENT (NEGOTIATIONS FOR NEW AGREEMENT)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes related to negotiations between the British Government and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd, for a new Civil Air Agreement; Britain's aviation rights in Oman during the Second World War (1939-1945) had depended on a War Subsid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1945-2 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (543 folios)

4475. IOR/L/PS/12/1986

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1986
Title:
Coll 5/34 ‘Meteorological Stations in Persian Gulf: Bahrain & Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and related notes on the provision of accommodation in the Sharjah Rest House for observers of the Indian Meteorological Department; the observers at Sharjah were to be transferred from Muscat. It also contains some discussion over the future of the observatories...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jul 1934-18 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

4476. IOR/L/PS/12/1987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1987
Title:
Coll 5/35 ‘Iraq: Civil aviation in: Opening of airports at Bagdad and Magil’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the establishment of new civil airports at Baghdad (1933) and Basra (1934), and subsequent additions to these facilities. It also contains copies of a number of notices to airmen issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Communications and Works: see folios 5-8 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1930-4 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

4477. IOR/L/PS/12/1988

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1988
Title:
Coll 5/35 ‘Sale of Auster Aircraft by Govt of India to Govt of Iraq’
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams related to the sale of ten Auster aircraft by the Government of India to the Government of Iraq; communication between the Indian and Iraqi governments is facilitated by the British Embassy in Baghdad. The file documents a delay in the release of these aircraft as a r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1948-12 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

4478. IOR/L/PS/12/1989

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1989
Title:
Coll 5/35(1) ‘APPOINTMENT OF CIVIL AIR ATTACHÉ BAGDAD (WITH JURISDICTION OVER THE PERSIAN GULF)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the appointment of Beverley Gayer Barnard (1916-1973) as Civil Air Attaché at Baghdad, and the extension of his remit to cover the Persian Gulf. The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Sir William Rupert Ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1947-8 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

4479. IOR/L/PS/12/1990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1990
Title:
Coll 5/36 ‘Persian Gulf Air Route: Air facilities at Yas Island and at Abu Dhabi’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning negotiations with Shaikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi, for air facilities at Yas Island [Sir Bani Yas] and Abu Dhabi. The required air facilities include emergency landing grounds, moorings for flying boats, and petrol storage faci...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1934-8 Jul 1935
Extent:
1 file (116 folios)

4480. IOR/L/PS/12/1991

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1991
Title:
Coll 5/37 ‘Landings in, and use of, Persian territory by British aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to a forced landing by aircraft Helena of Imperial Airways at Jask on 16 May 1934. The flight in question was carrying the Viceroy of India, Freeman Freeman-Thomas, and his wife Marie Adelaide (Lord and Lady Willingdon): see folio 4 for a detailed account...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1934-31 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

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