‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’
- Date:
- 1937/1949
- Description:
- Abstract: Correspondence, timetables and other papers relating to the activities of the shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company, in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf and wider Middle East region. Correspondence and papers relating to other transport operators are also included in the file: Imperial Airways (ff 18-23); Nairn Transport Company (f 13).Papers issued under a number of different company names or letterheads are stamped ‘Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd.’ These include: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (dissolved in 1937 and replaced by Gray, Mackenzie & Company); Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company; and the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited (BISNC).Amongst the routine correspondence (accounts, travel and transport arrangements, changes in office personnel), the file also includes:details, including timetables, of steamer services operated in the Persian Gulf and wider region by Gray, Mackenzie & Company, BISNC, Peninsular and Oriental (P&O);a photographic postcard of the BISNC vessel Dwarka(f 57);a brochure for the new BISNC vessels Dumraand Dwarka(f 73), with photographs of the vessel’s first- and second-class facilities;baggage labels, issued in May 1948 by BISNC to employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (f 77-78).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-61; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Shipping
Steamships
Travel
Timetables
SS Dwarka, ship - Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000127_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000127_en
IOR/R/15/2/1560
IOR/R/15/2/1560