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6271. IOR/R/15/2/659

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/659
Title:
‘File 28/1 I Defence against parachutists, obstruction of aerodromes and landing grounds, etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and memoranda containing guidance relating to the perceived threat of enemy troops parachuting into British-Indian territory. Though the threat is most strongly perceived in the north-western provinces of India and Baluchistan, the guidance was distrib...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1940-13 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

6272. IOR/R/15/2/660

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/660
Title:
‘File 28/1 J Sabotage to oil wells, etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and notes containing guidance, issued in response to reports from the War Office, of German plans to sabotage oil fields and refineries and blow up shipping. The file includes: a copy of a telegram from MICE (Middle East Intelligence Centre) in Cairo,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1939-10 Sep 1940
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

6273. IOR/R/15/2/661

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/661
Title:
‘File 28/1 K I Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the military defence of Bahrain’s oil refineries and oil fields during the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin W...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1939-3 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (340 folios)

6274. IOR/R/15/2/661, f 310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/661, f 310
Title:
‘Refinery tankage – proposed method for brick sheathing’
Scope & Content:
Blueprint plan showing a cross-section and elevation of a proposed method of construction for the brick sheathing of oil refinery tanks at the Bahrain Petroleum Refinery in Bahrain. The plan uses imperial measurements. In the lower left corner, the plan is indicated as having been drawn on 26 A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 blueprint plan

6275. IOR/R/15/2/663

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/663
Title:
‘File 28/1 K III Defence of oil field & refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition (‘oil denial’) of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and the subsequent abandonment of these de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1942-10 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)

6276. IOR/R/15/2/664

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/664
Title:
‘File 28/1 L I BAPCO refinery guards’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and copies of agreements, relating to the recruitment of a defence force in Bahrain, charged with the security and defence of the Bahrain Petroleum Company’s (BAPCO) refinery and oil fields. The principal correspondents in the file are the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Dec 1939-25 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (295 folios)

6277. IOR/R/15/2/666

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/666
Title:
‘File 28/1 N I Bahrain oil’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and statistical tables relating to the production of oil and other petroleum products by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) during and immediately after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Chief Local Representative for BAP...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1939-6 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (264 folios)

6278. IOR/R/15/2/667

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/667
Title:
‘File 28/1 N II Bahrain oil – production figures’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and statistical tables relating to the production of oil and associated petroleum products by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are the Chief Local Representative for BAPCO (R M Brown, repl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1946-23 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

6279. IOR/R/15/2/668

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/668
Title:
‘File 28/1 O Prevention from sailing of Swedish, Finnish, etc. craft’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises two secret telegrams, sent by the C-in-C (Commander-in-Chief), E.I. (East Indies Station), both dated 29 April 1940. The first (f 2) states that ‘All Swedish, Finnish, Latvian and Estonian ships in British Ports and bound for Scandinavian, Danish or Baltic Ports should by some ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

6280. IOR/R/15/2/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/669
Title:
‘File 28/1 P Visit of enemy aircraft to Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence and other papers relating to an air raid carried out by Italian bombers over the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) refinery in Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia, on the night...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1940-7 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

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