IOR/R/15/2/1692

Most of the papers in the file are statistical report sheets containing data about weather conditions in Bahrain. In addition to the weather data reports, other items in the file include a letter from Petroleum Concessions Ltd (PCL) to the Political Agency in Bahrain, dated June 1945, requesting annual rainfall data for Sharjah, Muscat and Ras-al-Hadd; a letter from the Advisor to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Belgrave) to the Political Agent in March 1946, informing the Agency that Sheikh Sulman requests daily weather forecasts for Bahrain; a letter from the Political Agent (Charles Pelly) to the Officer-in-Charge of the meteorological office at the RAF base in Bahrain, dated 21 November 1948, requesting that, in light of the meteorological (pilot balloon) observatory now being closed, RAF meteorological data be sent to the Agency on a fortnightly basis.

Correspondence from September 1950 between the Agency, Bahrein Petroleum Company and the Senior Meteorological Officer at RAF Bahrain, relates to two fatal incidents in June 1950 involving Air France aircraft crashing at Bahrain. The correspondence relates to how wind speeds, as published in the "Bahrein Islander" newspaper, were recorded (ff 244-45).