Coll 5/43 ‘Night flying facilities in the Persian Gulf in connection with the Empire Air Mail Scheme’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 5/43 ‘Night flying facilities in the Persian Gulf in connection with the Empire Air Mail Scheme’
- Date:
- 1935/1936
- Description:
- Abstract: The file contains correspondence, meeting notes (at the Air Ministry on 9 November 1934 and 22 March 1935), and memoranda regarding proposals to introduce night flying across the Persian Gulf as part of the Empire Air Mail Scheme. The focus of the file is on the following routes: Cairo-Karachi and Alexandria-Karachi, each with an intermediate stop at Bahrain. It details the anticipated extra facilities required in terms of wireless equipment, lighting equipment, meteorological equipment, and general ground organisation. The additional facilities are broken down geographically into facilities needed in Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, and Egypt.The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf(Trenchard Craven William Fowle), officials of the Air Ministry (D L Allen, W W Burkett, and Francis Claude Shelmerdine), and officials of the India Office (Miles John Clauson and John Gilbert Laithwaite).The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 78; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Night flying
Civil aviation
Air mail - Geographic region:
- Palestine
Egypt
Iraq
Transjordan - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000555.0x000217_ar
81055/vdc_100000000555.0x000217_en
IOR/L/PS/12/1997
IOR/L/PS/12/1997