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IOR/L/PS/10/974
- Record Id:
- 040-000546329
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000366
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100079404627.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/974
- Title:
- File 1595/1921 'Arms traffic: Muscat and Persian Gulf. Monthly Returns of Shipments. (1921- '
- Scope & Content:
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the monthly returns of arms shipments in Muscat and the Persian Gulf, 1921 to November 1930.
Included in the volume are copies of the returns, which consist of tables with the title, for example: 'RETURN OF LICENSES ISSUED FOR THE EXPORT OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION TO MUSCAT AND PORTS IN THE PERSIAN GULF DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1930'. Each table has a column with licence number, consignor, port of landing, consignee and description of goods. Each report is accompanied by a letter from the Imports and Exports Licensing Section, Board of Trade, London, to the Under Secretary of State for India, enclosing a 'statement, in duplicate, furnishing particulars of the licenses granted for the export of prohibited arms and ammunition to the destination in question during the month of ...'
The armaments recorded include: cartridges, shotguns, automatic pistols, machine gun parts, and revolvers. Consignees include the Government of Iraq and merchants in Iraq.
The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Imports and Exports Licensing Section, Board of Trade, London; the Custom House, London; the Viceroy, India; and the Secretary of State for India, London.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000546329 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/974 : File 1595/1921 'Arms traffic: Muscat and Persian Gulf. Monthly Returns of Shipments. (1921- ' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0977]/040-000546329
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (480 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000366
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1921
- End Date:
- 1930
- Date Range:
- 1921-1930
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 482; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- P 1595/1921
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)