File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat. The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sh...
‘File 13/4 II Facilities for Foreign Air Company’s using Arabian Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a continuation of ‘File 13/4 I Facilities for foreign air companies to use Arabian Air Route’ (IOR/R/15/2/511) and contains correspondence relating to the authorisation of foreign aircraft to use the air route following the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and the route’s aerodrome ...
‘File 13/22 India – Persian Gulf Air Route. India – U.K. Air Route’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the status of existing, and proposals for new, air routes running along the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. Aside from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Bahrain, the principal correspondents in the file are representatives ...
‘File 28/22-I Mission of S.O.(I) [Staff Officer Intelligence] Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file’s papers relate to the appointment and activities of the Security Officer (initially referred to as a Staff Officer Intelligence) in the Persian Gulf. The principal correspondents in the file are the Security Officer at Bahrain (Captain C G Campbell) and the Political Agent at Bahrain (...
File 39/22 Bahrain pearling banks in strip of seabed leased by Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain regarding the use of pearling banks within areas of oil interest near Ras Tanura.
File 6/14 I Director of Customs, Bahrain; Trust Fund with Eastern Bank Ltd Bombay
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence connected to a trust fund established for the Director of Customs in Bahrain (Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier). The majority of the papers are receipts, covering letters, and letters of acknowledgement relating to payments made into the trust fund by the Gove...
File 6/20 Bahrain Country Crafts registered at Customs - Certificates Countersigned by Political Agent
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the registration of boats in Bahrain. The vast majority of the papers are covering letters that were originally sent with registration certificates by the Director of Customs to the Political Agency for counter-signing. The certificates were then retu...
File 6/28 Prohibition of vegetable (adulterated) Ghi into Bahrain - Bahrain Govt notifications
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and public notices relating to a prohibition on importing vegetable ghee and mixed vegetable-animal ghee into Bahrain. The correspondence is between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Manama Municipality, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belg...
File 6/29 Purchase of Studebaker Car for H. E. Shaikh Hamad Al Khalifah
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the purchase by Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] of a Studebaker car. The correspondence is between the Political Agency at Bahrain, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Shaikh Hamad, a...
‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:
Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a ...
