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31. IOR/L/PS/12/1948

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1948
Title:
Coll 5/2 ‘Afghanistan: Repair by HMG of Afghan aeroplanes’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with a proposal — ultimately turned down by the Afghan Government — that the Royal Air Force (RAF) should repair ten unserviceable Afghan aircraft. The main correspondents are Richard Roy Maconachie, HM Minister at Kabul; officials of the Foreign Office; and representatives...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1931-18 Feb 1932
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/12/2036

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2036
Title:
Coll 5/74 ‘Afghanistan: British connection with the Afghan Air Force’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the position of British instructors employed by the Afghan Air Force. Most of the file consists of policy discussion – prompted by a letter from Colonel Alexander Stalker Lancaster, dated 13 April 1941, folios 23-31 – as to how this position should be developed conside...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1941-8 Jan 1942
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/1983

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1983
Title:
Coll 5/32 ‘Air-route to India (Arab Coast): Possibility of establishing a landing ground on Das Island’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office, Harold Spencer Kerby of the Air Ministry, and Trenchard Craven William Fowle as the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It documents the decision not to proceed with using Das Island as an emergency landing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1934-29 Mar 1934
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/12/2018

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2018
Title:
Coll 5/58 ‘Flights of foreign aircraft over Nepal’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with alleged violations of Nepalese territory by foreign aircraft. The reports are supplied to the Government of India by HM Minister to Nepal (Frederick Marshman Bailey and later Geoffrey Betham). The papers within the file can be largely grouped under two categories: corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1937-27 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/12/1987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1987
Title:
Coll 5/35 ‘Iraq: Civil aviation in: Opening of airports at Bagdad and Magil’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the establishment of new civil airports at Baghdad (1933) and Basra (1934), and subsequent additions to these facilities. It also contains copies of a number of notices to airmen issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Communications and Works: see folios 5-8 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1930-4 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/12/2003

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2003
Title:
Coll 5/50 ‘Air Route to India: Authorisation for occasional flights along the Arab Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Air Ministry, the India Office, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, documenting the process of obtaining special authorisation for a Christmas flight (London to Karachi via Cairo, and return) by Imperial Airways around 18-19 December 1935;...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1935-23 Dec 1935
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/12/2005

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2005
Title:
Coll 5/52(2) ‘German Air Service to the Far East’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and extracts from intelligence summaries on the following three related topics: an application by the Reich Air Minister for a permit for Lufthansa to operate a service over India and Burma updates on the Lufthansa air service between Berlin and Kabul the progres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Oct 1938-11 Jul 1941
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/12/2008

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2008
Title:
Coll 5/54 ‘Afghanistan: Training of Afghan Air Personnel in India’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to arrangements for the training of personnel for the Afghan Air Force by the Government of India: such as accommodation and messing arrangements, training provision, numbers of students, estimated expenditures, uniform requirements etc. The majority of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1937-15 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (258 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/12/2017

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2017
Title:
Coll 5/57 ‘Afghanistan: Sale of WAPITI aircraft to Afghan Govt’
Scope & Content:
The file documents negotiations surrounding a proposal – ultimately unsuccessful – by the British Government to sell second-hand Westland Wapiti aircraft to the Afghan Air Force. It includes a significant amount of correspondence related to the availability of spare parts, and correspondence rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1936-25 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (62 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/12/2044

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2044
Title:
Coll 5/82 ‘Facilities for U.S. Transport Corps at Sharjah; Posting of U.S. Provost Personnel for & maintenance of Discipline’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a small number of papers related to a suggestion, made by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in a telegram dated 15 August 1944 (folio 11), for the appointment of Provost (military police) personnel to maintain discipline among the increasing number of United States Arm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Aug 1944-3 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)