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91. IOR/R/15/2/764

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/764
Title:
‘File 28/78 Shaikhs of Bahrain and Kuwait’s messages of loyalty and BAPCO’s [Bahrain Petroleum Company’s] offer of help at outbreak of war – Shaikh’s gift’
Scope & Content:
The file includes letters, telegrams and other papers relating to messages of support received by British Government officials in the Gulf, from the Rulers of Bahrain, Dubai and Sharjah, and from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), in response to events in Europe that resulted in Britain’s de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jun 1939-13 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

92. IOR/R/15/2/653

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/653
Title:
‘File 28/1 B 1. Gift of £30,000 of Shaikh of Bahrain to the British Government; 2. Purchase of fighter aircraft; 3. Persian Gulf Fighter Fund’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to a financial gift made to the British Government by the Ruler of Bahrain, and a fund set up for the purchase of fighter plans for the Persian Gulf: correspondence relating to the receipt and cashing of a gift of £30,000 made by the Ruler of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1939-23 Feb 1941
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

93. IOR/R/15/2/684

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/684
Title:
‘File 28/5 (a) I War. Proposed extension of export licensing system’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and statistical data relating to the monitoring of imports and exports of important commodities into and out of Bahrain and the states of the Trucial Coast, as part of the wider export license controls and Navicert system of trade and contraband contr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1941-6 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (373 folios)

94. IOR/R/15/2/718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/718
Title:
‘File 28/28-(i) Military requirements (purchases etc. for the army)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the acquisition of oil industry equipment and supplies from the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for use by British military headquarters at Basra, Iraq (later referr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-29 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (305 folios)

95. IOR/R/15/2/753

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/753
Title:
‘File 28/61 War. BAPCO and A.I.O.C. – Attitude of employees regarding enlistment in armed forces at outbreak of war’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to the appointment of employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) as special police officers, to be engaged as part of BAPCO’s oil refinery defence scheme in time of war. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1939-2 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

96. 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)

97. IOR/R/15/2/679

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/679
Title:
‘File 28/5 I Export licences for shipments of oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to oil exports made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and to a lesser extent the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), and the need for regulation of oil exports during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1939-26 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)

98. IOR/R/15/2/750

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/750
Title:
‘File 28/57-III Volunteers for National Service: Conscription of Labour, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the introduction and application of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, issued under the Persian Gulf States (Emergency) Order in Council (1939). The Regulation stipulated that British subjects employed at the Bahrain Petroleu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1941-20 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (254 folios)

99. IOR/R/15/2/686

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/686
Title:
‘File 28/6 War. Arrangements for the Control of Norwegian, Danish and other neutral ships, etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises communications and correspondence relating to the restrictions and orders imposed by the British Government on foreign vessels, and in particular those regarded as neutral or ‘enemy’ during wartime. The papers chiefly relate to Danish and Norwegian vessels, prompted by the Ger...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1940-15 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

100. IOR/R/15/2/694

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/694
Title:
‘File 28/10-(c) Anti-British Activities of Abdullah bin Faris, Secretary of the Shaikh of Sharjah’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to anti-British and pro-German propaganda being disseminated at Sharjah, and specifically that being allegedly spread by the Ruler of Sharjah’s Secretary, Abdullah bin Faris. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Age...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1940-21 Jan 1941
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)