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11. IOR/L/PS/12/1967

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1967
Title:
Coll 5/21 ‘Procedure for visits of British service aircraft to foreign air bases’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a number of Foreign Office circulars regarding the procedure to be followed – in communicating with foreign governments – when facilitating flights to foreign air bases by British aircraft, either privately owned or of the Royal Air Force (RAF). It also contains a circular conc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-6 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/2041

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2041
Title:
Coll 5/79 ‘NEPAL: SUPPLY OF AIRCRAFT TO’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to opportunities for supplying British aircraft to Nepal. Most of these papers relate to an enquiry in 1945, instigated by the Nepalese Minister in London, over the possibility of purchasing de Havilland Dominie and Percival Proctor aircraft. The main correspond...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1942-31 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/1968

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1968
Title:
Coll 5/22 ‘Proposed air service in the Hadramaut’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence forwarded on to the India Office by either the Colonial Office or the Air Ministry. This correspondence concerns two independent requests for the purchase of aircraft for use in the Hadramaut. The first being a request from Sultan bin Ghalib on behalf of Sayed Bu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1927-22 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/1970

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1970
Title:
Coll 5/23 ‘Violation of Tibetan territory by aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to a forced landing by an American aircraft in Tibet on 30 November 1943, and the subsequent rescue of the airmen and their return to India. A detailed account of the incident can be found in a letter written by George Sheriff, Head of the British Mission...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1943-30 Apr 1944
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/1976

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1976
Title:
Coll 5/26 ‘Afghanistan: Purchase of bombing aeroplanes from United States of America’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with two topics. The first is a report from G Stuart Morgan regarding the intention of Barr Shipping Corporation to deliver six American bombers to Afghanistan in 1933: see folios 28-40. The second is the gift of a PT 17 (Stearman) from the United States to the Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1933-12 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/2049

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2049
Title:
Coll 5/84(4) ‘Middle East Summaries from Ministry of Civil Aviation’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of Ministry of Civil Aviation Middle East Intelligence Summaries – Numbers 1 to 8 – which have been supplied to the India Office. The summaries cover independent countries (Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Ethiopia), sovereignties previously u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1946-6 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/1971

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1971
Title:
Coll 5/24 ‘Purchase of a small cabin aircraft by the Sheikh of Koweit’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to an enquiry made by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait, regarding the purchase of a private aircraft. The practical and political aspects of this request are considered by some of the correspondents: the Air Ministry, the Department of Over...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1932-7 Sep 1936
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/2015

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2015
Title:
Coll 5/55(5) ‘Afghanistan: Supply of Spitfire Aircraft’
Scope & Content:
The majority of the file consists of records of cypher messages sent between the Air Ministry in London and Air Headquarters, India, concerning arrangements for the possible supply of Supermarine Spitfires – mark VIIIs – to the Afghan Air Force. This includes the supply of a demonstration aircra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1946-7 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/2000

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2000
Title:
Coll 5/47 ‘Persia and the Persian Gulf: Bushire and Bandar Abbas’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence documenting a proposal from the British Embassy at Tehran that the meteorological stations at Bushire and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] should be shut down, and subsequent consultation with the Government of India and Pakistan via the officers of the UK High Com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1947-17 May 1949
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

20. 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)