Coll 30/130 'Persian Gulf. Koweit. Proposal for a motor route from Koweit-Haifa'
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This file contains correspondence between British officials in London, Palestine, Kuwait and India regarding proposals for the construction of a motor route from Kuwait-Amman (folios 4-53) and Kuwait-Haifa (folios 54-204). In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following: 'War Ca...
Coll 30/131 'Persian Gulf. Pearling. American process for the manufacture of cultured pearls'
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This file contains correspondence between British officials and an American malacologist named Clarence F Hoy. The correspondence concerns a proposal by Hoy to introduce a method for the manufacture of cultured pearls somewhere in the British Empire, with Bahrain mentioned as a possible location...
Coll 30/132 'Persian Gulf. Importation of Indian Labour to Bahrain by Petroleum Concessions Ltd.'
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This file contains correspondence sent to the India Office by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, General Manager of Petroleum Concessions Limited, regarding the company's desire to hire a number of Indian personnel for employment in Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial Coast. The file includes a divider, whi...
Coll 30/133 'Persian Gulf. Trucial Coast: Appointment of a Medical Officer'
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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the provision of medical facilities on the Trucial Coast including the political reasons for doing so. Specifically, the correspondence discusses the opening of a medical dispensary in Dubai in June 1939. The file also contai...
Coll 30/134 'Persian Gulf. Question of residence of European women in Bahrain and Koweit'
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This file contains correspondence concerning the need for oil companies active in Bahrain and Kuwait to provide suitable accommodation for any 'European women' resident there. The correspondence is between officials at the India Office, Petroleum Concessions Limited and the Kuwait Oil Company. ...
Coll 30/135 'Bahrein: Production of oil - Royalty, Gauging, etc.'
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The file concerns general matters relating to the operations of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain. The papers mostly consist of correspondence from the company, with correspondence and minutes produced by the India Office and other British officials, including the Political Agent...
Coll 30/136 'Film productions: Facilities for film-producing units.'
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The file concerns the making of a documentary film by the Strand Film Company, London, concerning the Imperial Airways route between the United Kingdom and Australia, which involved filming at Sharjah. The papers include: telegrams dated 1936 giving permission for the filming from the Political...