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IOR/R/15/5/4
- Record Id:
- 040-000242004
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000241998
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00039f
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100034937176.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/5/4
- Title:
- ‘No. I/34. Launch establishment’
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence concerning employees of the Kuwait Political Agency motor launch. The bulk of the file’s correspondence concerns Cyril Bayer, Inspector in general charge of the launch, and relates to his role, his failing health, subsequent retirement to India, financial provision for him in retirement, and death in 1938. The file includes:
- a copy of an office order entitled ‘Care of “Agency Launch” and “Sailing Boats”’, outlining Bayer’s duties as Inspector for the launch (ff 13-14);
- notices dated 1943 relating to the status and movements of the Kuwait launch, the Hugh Biscoe (ff 81-83);
- a list of motor launch equipment transferred between launch nakhudas (f 97).
Principal correspondents in the file include: the Political Agent at Kuwait; the Inspector of the Kuwait Political Agency launch (Cyril Bayer); Cyril Bayer’s brother, Maurice P Bayer.
Several of the file’s papers are in Arabic.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000241998
037-000241999
038-000242000
040-000242004 - 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/15/5 : Political Agency, Kuwait
IOR/R/15/5/1-108 : Kuwait Agency, First Series subject files
IOR/R/15/5/1-4 : File 1: Establishment
IOR/R/15/5/4 : ‘No. I/34. Launch establishment’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0005]/036-000241998[0001]/037-000241999[0001]/038-000242000[0004]/040-000242004
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (105 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00039f
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1926
- End Date:
- 1944
- Date Range:
- 19 Feb 1926-23 Sep 1944
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 106; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-106; these numbers are also written in pencil, and, where circled, are crossed through.
- Former External References:
- First Series: File I/34
- 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 102-106) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)