IOR/L/PS/12/3628

The file concerns the Vice-Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran].

The file contains correspondence related to:

• donation of land for sixty years from Shaikh of Mohammerah to build a consulate, 1912
• provision of accommodation, office, and car for Vice-Consul, 1929
• costs of alterations and repairs, and installation of electric lights and fans to the Vice-Consulate building, 1930
• provision of motor launches for Vice-Consul, 1931 and 1937
• temporary evacuation of Vice-Consulate for fire, 1935
• lease of Vice-Consulate premises at Khorramshahr, 1936
• repairs to Vice-Consulate building damaged by 1937 floods, and lease of living quarters from Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 1938
• removal of Vice-Consul, Reginald Lewis Bazalgette, for contrasts related to his accommodation, 1938
• proposals to rebuild the Vice-Consulate and the residential accommodation for Vice-Consul, 1939-42
• decision to purchase two houses from Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 1945
• purchase of a new motor launch, 1947.

The file is composed of correspondence between the British Vice-Consulate at Mohammerah, the British Legation at Tehran; the Viceroy; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the British Consulate at Ahwaz; the Government of India; the Office for the High Commissioner for India; the Foreign Office; and the India Office.