Ext 2703/44 Misr Air Corporation:- Notes of an interview with a Director (Mr Muntz) at Bahrain Agency
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The file contains notes regarding an interview conducted at the British Residency with Mr Muntz (a Director of Air Works Limited, Indian National Airways Limited, and Messrs Misr Air Corporation), sent by the Political Agent, Bahrain, to the British Resident and Consulate General, Bushire. The p...
Coll 1/69 'Aden. Financial adjustments between Government of India and HMG consequent to the separation of Aden from India'
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The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner, the Accountant-General (Bombay), the India Office Political Department, and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, and Finance Department. The correspondence concerns financial arrangements at Aden followin...
Coll 5/17 ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Landing grounds at Kalba, Shinas, and Dibah’
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The file contains correspondence, and related India Office notes, regarding the establishment of an emergency landing ground and facilities at Kalba for the use of Imperial Airways (later the British Overseas Airways Corporation - BOAC). This includes material related to negotiations between Tom...
Coll 5/65 ‘Loan of services of airmen of R.A.F. in India to Afghan Govt’
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The file contains correspondence related to the secondment of Royal Air Force personnel as instructors to the Afghan Air Force. It covers matters such as terms and conditions of employment, travel expenses (including accompanying family members), the recruitment of replacement personnel, and req...
Coll 26/9 'Palestine: Palestine Commission, 1937 and Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report) 1938: Reactions in the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms'
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This file contains correspondence regarding the Palestine Royal Commission, the Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report), and contemporary reactions in the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms [shaikhdoms]. The correspondence is primarily between the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Colonial O...
Coll 28/72 ‘Persia. Telegraph stations at Jask; Question of Persian encroachments and realignment of boundary.’
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Correspondence exchanged between the British Legation in Tehran, including HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the Foreign Office, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Allsebrook Simon. The correspondence concerns questions over the extent of the conc...
Coll 28/75 ‘Persia; Persian Baluchistan. Persian allegations of improper British activities. Visit of Persian official to Gwadur. Indo-Persian Frontier Conference, 1935.’
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Correspondence concerning tribal unrest on the frontier between Persia [Iran] and British India, more specifically the region of Persia referred to as Persian Baluchistan [Sistan and Baluchistan Province] and Baluchistan Province in modern-day Pakistan, and efforts to control cross-border moveme...
The file concerns the British Consulate at Tabriz. The file covers: office expendituregrant of an allowance to the Acting Consulemployment of a clerk-typistcost of living in Tabrizproposal to grant a bonus on salaries of staffoffice allowance grants. The file is composed of correspondence betwe...
The volume concerns the Political Agency buildings at Kuwait. The volume covers: 1929 report on the conditions of the seventy years-old Agency building, property of the Shaikh of Kuwait, who permitted to the Political Agency to occupy it free of rent plans to build a new Agency; reports on weat...
The file concerns appointments at the British Consulate at Isfahan. The file contains correspondence related to: appointment of Lancaster, as Acting British Vice-Consul, 1930 1940 reopening of Consular Post at Isfahan, after closure in 1933 appointment of Mayers as Vice-Consul, 1941 purchase of...
