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IOR/R/15/2/520
- Record Id:
- 040-000228798
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000337
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024273271.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/520
- Title:
- ‘File 13/11 Air communications with Bushire’
- Scope & Content:
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The file comprises a copy of a single letter, dated 16 May 1942, from the Political Resident, Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, to Hugh Weightman, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department. In the letter Hay requests that one of the five weekly air services currently flying along the Arab coast of the Gulf, be diverted to stop at Bushire. Hay makes the request in light of the ‘incredibly bad’ communications currently existing between the Political Residency in Bushire and the other British agencies in the Gulf. Hay makes reference to the extra work entailed in having to send almost every telegram in cypher, and to the destruction of the mailer steamer Suisang in a fire at Abadan, as exacerbating communications problems.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000228401
038-000228782
040-000228798 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/139-916 : Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/505-537 : File 13 Aviation
IOR/R/15/2/520 : ‘File 13/11 Air communications with Bushire’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0003]/037-000228401[0015]/038-000228782[0016]/040-000228798
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (3 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000337
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1942
- End Date:
- 1942
- Date Range:
- 16 May 1942
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-3; these numbers are also written in pencil, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
- Former External References:
- Confidential Files: 13/11
- Arrangement:
- The file comprises one letter, followed by a page of file notes (f 4).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)