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IOR/L/PS/10/414/2
- Record Id:
- 041-000545346
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000287.0x000050
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040218069.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/414/2
- Title:
- File 4030/1913 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates'
- Scope & Content:
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This part contains correspondence that relates to a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for the construction of the Baghdad Railway.
Much of the correspondence relates to negotiations between Lord Inchcape and John Finnis Lynch of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company to ensure that their respective interests did not conflict with one another.
On folios 15-38, a copy of the Articles of Association and Certificate of Incorporation of Mackay, Lynch and Company Limited (from 31 March 1914) is enclosed.
The principal correspondents are Lord Inchcape; the Ottoman representative in negotiations regarding the concession, Ibrahim Hakki Pasha; the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey and the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet. A limited amount of this correspondence is in French.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545344
041-000545346 - 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/10/414 : File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
IOR/L/PS/10/414/2 : File 4030/1913 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0416]/040-000545344[0002]/041-000545346
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 file (95 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100040218069.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1913
- End Date:
- 1914
- Date Range:
- 9 Dec 1913-21 Jul 1914
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- File 4030/1913 Pt 2
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)