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4571. IOR/L/PS/12/2024

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2024
Title:
Coll 5/62 ‘India-Kabul Route: Question of establishment of an air service between India and Kabul’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to a number of unsuccessful attempts to establish civil aviation services between Afghanistan and India. The file includes related policy discussion over the use of Lend-Lease aircraft supplied by the United States, as a result of wartime proposals. It also inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1938-1 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (336 folios)

4572. IOR/L/PS/12/2025

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2025
Title:
Coll 5/63 ‘Petroleum Development (Qatar) Ltd: Proposed construction of aerodrome on western side of Qatar’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with an application from Petroleum Concessions Limited for a general permission to operate aircraft within Qatar and the wider Persian Gulf; under the Qatar Oil Concession the company was required to seek permission from the Shaikh of Qatar for each flight. There is also co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1937-21 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

4573. 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)

4574. IOR/L/PS/12/2027

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2027
Title:
Coll 5/65 ‘Loan of services of airmen of R.A.F. in India to Afghan Govt’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the secondment of Royal Air Force personnel as instructors to the Afghan Air Force. It covers matters such as terms and conditions of employment, travel expenses (including accompanying family members), the recruitment of replacement personnel, and req...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
24 Jan 1939-11 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (346 folios)

4575. IOR/L/PS/12/2028

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2028
Title:
Coll 5/65 ‘ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AIR ATTACHE KABUL & LOAN OF AIR PERSONNEL TO AFGHAN GOVNT’
Scope & Content:
The file is predominantly concerned with plans for the supervision of Royal Air Force (RAF) personnel working for the Afghan Air Force at Kabul. This includes the drafting of a directive for Wing Commander P A McWhannel, the Air Adviser attached to the UK High Commission to Pakistan at Karachi, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1948-15 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (128 folios)

4576. IOR/L/PS/12/2029

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2029
Title:
Coll 5/67 ‘Crashes of British aircraft in neutral countries during the war’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small number of papers related to the crashes of Royal Air Force (RAF) machines in neutral countries; the file focuses on neutral countries of interest to the India Office. The vast majority of the papers focus on a single incident in September 1939: the crash landing of an R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1939-29 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

4577. IOR/L/PS/12/2030

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2030
Title:
Coll 5/68 ‘Air route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Security of the Air Route; emergency landing arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the security of the Arab Coast Air Route, used by both Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force (RAF). The majority of the file is devoted to proposals made by Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in his letter da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1939-11 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

4578. IOR/L/PS/12/2031

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2031
Title:
Coll 5/69 ‘Afghanistan: Visit of the A.O.C-in-Chief, India to Kabul in 1939’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with a visit to Afghanistan by Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferté, Air Officer Commanding Air Forces in India, 26-27 August 1939; the stated purpose of the officer's visit to Kabul being to assess the condition of the Afghan Air Force and make recommendations for improvements. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1939-8 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

4579. IOR/L/PS/12/2032

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2032
Title:
Coll 5/70 Proposed Italian air service from Rome to Tehran extending later to Kabul
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1939-13 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file

4580. IOR/L/PS/12/2033

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2033
Title:
Coll 5/72 ‘Persia: Supply of American aircraft to –’
Scope & Content:
The file is largely concerned with the shipment of ten P-40 Tomahawk fighter planes from the United States to Iran by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The papers within outline a policy debate as to whether the aircraft in question should be diverted for British use and whether a request should b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1941-25 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

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