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81. IOR/L/PS/12/3865

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3865
Title:
Coll 30/131 'Persian Gulf. Pearling. American process for the manufacture of cultured pearls'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials and an American malacologist named Clarence F Hoy. The correspondence concerns a proposal by Hoy to introduce a method for the manufacture of cultured pearls somewhere in the British Empire, with Bahrain mentioned as a possible location...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1936-1 Oct 1936
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

82. IOR/L/PS/12/3950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3950
Title:
Coll 30/210 'Bahrein Oil: production of aviation fuel (100 octane) at Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a 100 octane aviation fuel production plant at the refinery of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain. The plant was to cost $18 million, and be 75% financed by the United States (US) Government. The papers cover: correspondence from the Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1938-15 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

83. IOR/L/PS/12/3925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3925
Title:
Coll 30/187 'Prize jurisdiction in the Persian Gulf States.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the application to the Persian Gulf of amended prize jurisdiction in the run-up to, and following the outbreak of, the Second World War. Prize law related to the capture of enemy ships and goods during wartime. The Prize Act, 1939 extended prize law to aircraft also. The paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1939-21 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

84. IOR/L/PS/12/3962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3962
Title:
Coll 30/218 'Employment of foreigners by Bahrein Petroleum Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates solely to a request from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for permission to employ some French Canadians as additional operators. Permission for the request was granted by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The file includes a divider, which gives a list of corres...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Oct 1943-2 Dec 1943
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

85. IOR/L/PS/12/3967

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3967
Title:
Coll 30/223 'Survey of Trucial Coast by U.S.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a survey of the Trucial Coast in June to August 1945 by a United States Army Survey Mission. The survey was undertaken in conjunction with Survey Branch Middle East. Correspondence dated August-October 1945 discusses the Survey Mission's request to extend its work into Muscat t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1945-27 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

86. IOR/L/PS/12/3772

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3772
Title:
Coll 30/55 'Persian Gulf. Trucial Oman + Other Trucial Shaikhdoms: Persian Interference with Trucial Coast Dhows'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British diplomatic and naval officials regarding a number of alleged instances of interference with shipping vessels from Oman and Dubai by Government of Iran naval vessels and customs officials. The file also contains English translations of letters t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1933-27 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

87. IOR/L/PS/12/3778

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3778
Title:
Coll 30/61 'Persian Gulf. Anglo-Persian Relations: Arrest of Persian Mudir of Customs (Status of Basidu) at Basidu'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British naval and diplomatic officials regarding the arrest of the Government of Persia's Mudir [Head] of Customs at Basidu by British forces stationed there. The Mudir was arrested after claiming Basidu - where Britain operated a coaling station - and i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Oct 1933-13 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (613 folios)

88. IOR/L/PS/12/3910

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3910
Title:
Coll 30/173 'Oil: Abu Dhabi Oil Concession.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the signing of the oil concession agreement between Petroleum Concessions Limited (through its subsidiary, Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited) and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, and the ratification of the agreement by the British Government. The papers cover: the initial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1938-2 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (146 folios)

89. IOR/L/PS/12/3716

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3716
Title:
Coll 30/6 'Persian Gulf. Bahrein [sic]: Trade Reports 1928 to'
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of annual trade reports that were compiled by the Political Agency in Bahrain and printed in India. The reports contain detailed lists of all trade shipped in and out of Bahrain and the country's primary importers and exporters as well as general trade and financial i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1929-15 Dec 1947
Extent:
1 file (236 folios)

90. IOR/L/PS/12/3790

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3790
Title:
Coll 30/73 'German activities in the Gulf (inc Hansa line)'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns various German activities in the Persian Gulf, principally the presence in the Gulf of German shipping, which was operated by the Hansa Line. The Foreign Office wished 'to discourage, as far as possible, German penetration in the Persian Gulf' (folio 65). The papers cover: lis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1934-26 Apr 1939
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)