Black-and-white printed map, which is part of a larger document entitled Navy (Fuel Oil).Agreement with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited, published by HM’s Stationery Office, 1914 (ff 301-319). The map shows Persia, highlighted red with a thick red outline, and its neighbours, including the...
‘Map showing petroliferous areas visited by Admiralty Oil Commission 1913’
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Black-and-white printed map, which is part of a larger document entitled Navy (Fuel Oil).Agreement with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Limited, published by HM’s Stationery Office, 1914 (ff 301-319). The map indicates the areas visited and oil shows not examined by an Admiralty Oil Commission, wh...
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
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The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...