The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to ongoing exploratory oil drilling being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO), and the resignation of Major Frank Holmes as Chief Local Representative for BAPCO in Bahrain. The volume is a direct c...
The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil production in Bahrain being undertaken by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO). The volume is a direct continuation of ‘File 86/2 X (C 52) Bahrain Oil’ (IOR/R/15/1/658). The principal correspondents in the volume are...
This file contains correspondence between Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, Political Agent at Bahrain, and the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf at Bushire, as well as members of the Āl Khalīfah family, including Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá and Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Īsá. In addition,...
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Resident in Bushire, the Political Agent in Bahrain and the Secretary of State for India, on the Qatar oil concession, on the Southern boundary of Qatar and on the role of Ibn Saud in the negotiation. The volume includes: meeting notes, ...
The volume mainly contains correspondence, telegrams and memoranda exchanged between the Political Agent and the Political Resident and with the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the Sheikh of Qatar and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) on the boundaries of Qatar and the Qatar...
This file concerns the ability of Hindu traders to access the ports of Qatif [al-Qaṭīf] and Jubail [al-Jubayl] on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. Correspondents include: Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Agent at Bahrain; Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident in th...
‘File 13/5 Assistance to Imperial Airways & Accidents to their Craft’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence on a number of different, air-related matters, and is not restricted to air accidents suffered by Imperial Airways aircraft. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Political Agent in Bahrain, and the Political Off...
‘File 13/7 II Civil Aerodromes and Civil Air Agreement–Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a continuation of ‘File 13/7 Civil Air Agreement’ (IOR/R/15/2/515), and contains correspondence relating to the air agreements and navigation regulations in place at the aerodromes on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf, and chiefly at Muharraq in Bahrain. The principal corresponden...
‘File 13/7 III AVIATION. Civil Aerodromes, terms of Agreement etc.’
Scope & Content:
The volume, which is a continuation of ‘File 13/7 II Civil Aerodromes and Civil Air Agreement–Bahrain’ (IOR/R/15/2/516) contains correspondence and other papers related to the extension of the Bahrain Civil Air Agreement, the ongoing development of civil aviation facilities at Bahrain, and the t...
‘File 28/32 Food requirements from Pakistan. Civil requirements programme’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the export of foodstuffs from Pakistan to the sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf, as part of the Civil Requirements Programme. Principal correspondents in the file include: Political Agency staff at Bahrain; the Director (or Act...
