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IOR/R/15/2/1560
- Record Id:
- 040-000229893
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000127
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034420235.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1560
- Title:
- ‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence, timetables and other papers relating to the activities of the shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company, in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East region. Correspondence and papers relating to other transport operators are also included in the file: Imperial Airways (ff 18-23); Nairn Transport Company (f 13).
Papers issued under a number of different company names or letterheads are stamped ‘Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd.’ These include: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (dissolved in 1937 and replaced by Gray, Mackenzie & Company); Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company; and the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited (BISNC).
Amongst the routine correspondence (accounts, travel and transport arrangements, changes in office personnel), the file also includes:
- details, including timetables, of steamer services operated in the Persian Gulf and wider region by Gray, Mackenzie & Company, BISNC, Peninsular and Oriental (P&O);
- a photographic postcard of the BISNC vessel Dwarka (f 57);
- a brochure for the new BISNC vessels Dumra and Dwarka (f 73), with photographs of the vessel’s first- and second-class facilities;
- baggage labels, issued in May 1948 by BISNC to employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (f 77-78).
- 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
037-000229279
038-000229824
040-000229893 - 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/15/2/963-1823 : Bahrain Agency, English Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594 : File 16: Miscellaneous
IOR/R/15/2/1560 : ‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’ - Contains:
- IOR/R/15/2/1560, f 57 : ‘British India S.N. Co. Ltd. M.S. Dwarka’
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/R/15/2/1560 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0008]/037-000229279[0016]/038-000229824[0070]/040-000229893
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (127 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000127
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1937
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 10 Mar 1937-27 Aug 1949
- 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 with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128; 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 3-61; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
The file has one foliation anomaly, f 13A.
- Former External References:
- English Office: File 16/50
- Arrangement:
- The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 116-127) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)