The file’s contents relate to an enquiry made by the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), dated 27 October 1940, to the Political Agency in Bahrain, asking if British aircraft were flown over the company’s refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia on the night of 25/26 October 1...
‘File 28/5 II License for export of oil from Bahrain. Rules, Regulations & correspondence’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the issue of licences (also referred to as permits) for petroleum exports from Bahrain during the Second World War, and to questions over the continuation of the issue of the same licences in the immediate post-war period. Correspondents i...
‘Miscellaneous 16/13 Pensions to Bahadur Khan & Niadar Khan Levy Corps Havildars – Correspondence re –’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to arrangements for the payment of Indian military pensions for individuals either residing in Bahrain, or who have worked in Bahrain and wish to return to British India. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Secretary to the Politic...
‘File 16/36 Miscellaneous. Certificates for Animal casings and other articles exported from Bahrain – Countersigned by P.A.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to the export of animal casings from Bahrain. An exchange of correspondence in 1932 between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) refers to the question of autho...
‘File 16/64 Correspondence regarding indents placed on companies in India by the Executive Engineer, Persian Gulf Division’
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Two items of correspondence addressed to the Executive Engineer of the Independent Persian Gulf Sub Division at Bushire, from the shipping agent Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company, who write in their capacity as agents for Jenson & Nicholson (India) Limited. Both letters, which bear Jenson &am...
‘File 20/2 Ceremonials & Honours. DEATHS IN ROYAL FAMILY AND OF OTHER BIG PERSONS’
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The file contains telegrams announcing the deaths of members of the British Royal Family, British Government officials and ruling families and presidents of other countries, and their funerals. Among those who passed away in the Royal Family are the Empress Maria of Russia, aunt of King George V...
File 28/5 II Visit of Tankers etc to Sitrah & Shipments of oil (Royalty Tickets)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) and Gray, Mackenzie & Co. on shipments of oil from Sitrah terminus. The...
‘File XXXVIII/3 SUR AFFAIRS. SUR & THE AMIRS OF JA‘ALAN. 1927 to oct: 1928.’
Scope & Content:
The volume starts with an index (ff 4-8) which lists the subjects of the correspondence in the volume. The correspondence in the volume is in the form of letters, telegrams and reports related to the internal affairs taking place at Sur and the involvement of various tribes in those affairs, mai...
‘File 2/19 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE. (3i) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Ras Al Had.’
Scope & Content:
The file includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters and memoranda related to the establishment and the later evacuation of the landing ground at Ras Al-Hadd (Also Ras Al-Had). Folios 1 to 19 are all dated 1930, and they include correspondence between the Air Headquarters, Britis...
'File 2/40 COPIES OF MUSCAT CIVIL AGREEMENT AS PRESENTED TO HIS HIGHNESS FROM TIME TO TIME. FINAL AGREEMENT AS SIGNED’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains unsigned drafted copies of the Muscat Civil Air Agreement. The main contents of the agreement are the following: Heads of agreement between His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and His Highness the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Territory of Muscat and Oman Air navigatio...
