Ext 3189/41 'Iraq - Request by G.O.C. Basra. for 14 miles of piping from the Anglo Iranian Oil Co.'
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The file contains correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iran and the Foreign Office, regarding a request from the General Officer Commanding Iraq for the export from Iran of materials needed for the provision of a military water supply. Owing to the difficulties foreseen in obtaining the agree...
Coll 5/59 ‘NWF: Lost German aeroplane. Grant of permission for German search expedition to fly over prohibited areas of NWF’
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The file contains correspondence related to assistance rendered to Lufthansa to facilitate the search for a plane which went missing around 30 August 1937 during a flight from Kansu to Kabul; Lufthansa had been undertaking experimental flights to establish a service between Germany and the Far E...
Coll 5/68 ‘Air route to India: Air facilities on the Arab Coast; Security of the Air Route; emergency landing arrangements’
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The file contains correspondence related to the security of the Arab Coast Air Route, used by both Imperial Airways and the Royal Air Force (RAF). The majority of the file is devoted to proposals made by Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in his letter da...
Coll 7/26 'Afghanistan: proposed purchase of gas shells, etc., by Afghan Government; question of attitude of HMG'
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Correspondence regarding a request by the Government of Afghanistan to import a sample teargas gun, canisters and accessories to Kabul, via India. The file concerns arrangements for the purchase and delivery of the sample, plus British and Indian concerns over the potential import or manufacture...
Coll 28/27 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Delay + mutilation of telms for Tehran Legation. Suggested alternative arrangements.’
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Correspondence exchanged between the India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter; George William Rendel), and the British Legetation at Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr), concerning the desire to retain a British telegraphist at Tehran after the withdrawal of the Indo...
Coll 28/69 ‘Irrigation Projects in Sth Persia. Reports by Major W. R. Morton R.E. inc. Suggestion of Sir L. Howarth’
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Papers relating to proposals for irrigation schemes in Persia [Iran], and specifically for the Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] in the southwest of the country. The contents of the volume can be divided into two parts, as follows: Correspondence dated 1933-34 (ff 141-240) concerning a request made by ...
Coll 28/113 ‘Persia. Persian – U.S. Relations. Appointment of United States officials as advisers to the Persian Govt.’
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Secret correspondence concerning the appointment of a financial adviser, military and police advisers, and relief workers from the USA to Persia [Iran]. Correspondence over the matter was prompted by what the British and United States Governments perceived as economic and political disarray in I...
Coll 29/18 'Duzdap and Zahidan: vice consul and consul; appointments'
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The file concerns appointments at the British Vice-Consulate at Duzdap (Zahedan), which became a Consulate in 1942. The file contains internal correspondence about and with subjects appointed. The correspondence regards suitability of the candidates, terms of employment, discussions on pay and s...
Coll 29/100 'Kerman Vice-Consulate: temporary inclusion of Bandar Abbas'
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The file concerns the vice-consulates of Kerman and Bandar Abbas, which were amalgamated from 1931 to 1941. The file covers: the suggestion to re-open the Bandar Abbas Consulate and to abolish the post of Vice-Consul at Kerman, from 1942 grant of increased rates of dearness allowance to the cl...
Coll 30/119 'Qatar: Protest by Ibn Saud against the grant of the Qatar Oil Concession. Direct correspondence between the Sheikh of Qatar & Ibn Saud.'
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The file concerns a letter from Ibn Saud (also referred to as Bin Saud) [Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Saudi Arabia, to Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim ath-Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar (also spelled Katr), concerning the Qatar oil concession and ...
