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1. IOR/R/15/6/402-413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/402-413
Title:
File 12: Roads and Communications
Scope & Content:
The Roads and Communications files of the Political Agency, Muscat mostly concern mail and telegraph services in Muscat and Gwadar. The files cover the following topics: a single letter discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa, 1937 (IOR/R/15/6/402); the opera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1934-1951
Extent:
12 files and volumes (1260 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/6/411

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/411
Title:
File 12/5 ECONOMICS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Scope & Content:
The file title contains a misspelling: 'Economics' for 'Economies'. The file consists of a Foreign Office circular dated 24 November 1947 entitled 'Economies on Communications: Report'. The report contains recommendations for economies on telegrams and bag services (mail).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/404

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/404
Title:
File 12/1 II CABLE & WIRELESS MUSCAT
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. Correspondence on two separate topics has been merged in the file: (1) Correspondence concerning Abdul Jalil Zawawi, a Cable and Wireless probationer, who had run away from the Company's school in Karachi and gone to Laho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1949-5 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/6/405

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/405
Title:
File 12/1 III Cable and Wireless Ltd
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: draft of a Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Licence between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Cable and Wireless Limited; draft and agreed versions of the Muscat-Muttrah Telephone Licence between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1950-25 Nov 1950
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/6/402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/402
Title:
File 12/1 KUWAIT/HAIFA COMMERCIAL MOTOR ROUTE
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a single demi-official letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the India Office, dated 5 February 1937, discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1937-5 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/406

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/406
Title:
File 12/1 IV CABLE & WIRELESS LTD.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers include: correspondence between the Company and the Political Agent, Muscat, concerning the installation of air-conditioning in quarters occupied by the Company's staff; statistics of average monthly cable traf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1951-2 Dec 1951
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/407
Title:
File 12/2 Cable and Wireless Limited, Muscat.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat. The papers consist almost entirely of correspondence between the Company and the Political Agent, Muscat, and cover: change of Company name; procedural matters; building works at the Company's premises; a request by the S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 May 1934-1 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (221 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/6/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/409
Title:
File 12/3 II RAS-AL-HADD MAIL SERVICE PROPOSAL
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the improvement of the mail service in Muscat and Oman. Muscat was said in 1944 to have been 'ill supplied with mail facilities for many months, resulting in serious delays in delivery of official mail and excessive expenditure on telegrams' (folio 45). The commer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1943-16 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/6/413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/413
Title:
File 12/10 Post Office - Muscat & Gwadur
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal services at Muscat and Gwadar. The arrangements for postal services in the territories of Muscat and Oman were complicated from 1947 by the independence of India, and the transfer of responsibility for postal services from the Government of India to the Political Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1945-29 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (208 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/412

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/412
Title:
File 12/9 I Gwadur Post Office Buildings
Scope & Content:
The file concerns Post Office buildings at Gwadur [Gwadar]. The papers cover: correspondence concerning the Post Office boundary; sketch plans of sites; the disposal and sale of buildings (the 'Old Political Bungalow' and the 'Inspection Bungalow') to the Government of Muscat and Oman; well; co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1936-28 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (187 folios)