The file contains correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition (‘oil denial’) of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and the subsequent abandonment of these de...
‘File 28/28-(ii) Military requirements. Purchases from oil companies. Coke’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to: i) the export of petroleum industry equipment from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) at Al Khobar [Al-Khubar], including: baker cement retainers to...
‘File 28/64 Exemptions from customs dues on oil companies’ stores’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to customs and transit duties payable on equipment and stores owned by Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ) that are passing from Qatar through Bahrain, as a consequence of the shutdown of the Company’s operations in Qatar in 1942. The ...
File 39/3 (10/2) Application by Eastern and General Syndicate for a second concession
Scope & Content:
The file contains the application made by Frank Holmes for the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited to renew the 1925 oil concession in Bahrain. Copy of the Concession Draft Agreement in English and Arabic, with Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifah, Ruler of Bahrain, is enclosed in an envelope (ff ...
File 6/22 Correspondence regarding Finger Print training to Bahrain Government servants
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding training in fingerprinting for Bahrain Government officials. The correspondence is between the following: Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Agent, Bahrain; Shaikh Hamad bin 'Isa al-Khalifah [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], ruler of Bahrain; Charles Dalrymp...
‘File 12/5 Wrecks of sailing boats and vessels in the sea and salvages’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, statements made by nakhudas, bills and receipts, all related to incidents in which native vessels were wrecked or damaged in the Persian Gulf (and chiefly in the waters around Bahrain) usually as a result either of storms or collision with another vessel. The co...
File 17/21 Purchase of a Pick up for the Trucial Coast
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the purchase in 1941 of a Ford Pickup (1939 model) from Khalil bin Ebrahim Kanoo for the use of the Trucial Coast Agency, along with subsequent repairs and acquisitions of replacement parts; of particular concern is the necessity of fitting desert tires to the pickup. ...
File 21/4 Aerodrome at Bahrein [Bahrain] and Royal Air Force Landing Ground
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the Royal Air Force (RAF) aerodrome and landing ground at Manama and Muharraq, respectively. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Office of the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Air Officer Commanding and the C...
File 28/5 Visits of Tankers and other Ships to Sitrah
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Financial Adviser to the Government at Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on shipments of oil and movements of tankers and ships in and out of Sitra...
File 36/37 I Import of Vegetable Ghee and Oil from India
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the importation of vegetable ghee and cooking oil from India to the Gulf, primarily Bahrain. Specifically, the correspondence concerns the impact of a ghee shortage in India and the import quotas that were allocated to merchants operating in the Gulf....
