Coll 5/57 ‘Afghanistan: Sale of WAPITI aircraft to Afghan Govt’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 5/57 ‘Afghanistan: Sale of WAPITI aircraft to Afghan Govt’
- Date:
- 1936/1937
- Description:
- Abstract: The file documents negotiations surrounding a proposal – ultimately unsuccessful – by the British Government to sell second-hand Westland Wapiti aircraft to the Afghan Air Force. It includes a significant amount of correspondence related to the availability of spare parts, and correspondence related to an unrealised demonstration flight at Kabul.The main correspondents are as follows: HM Chargé d'affaires at Kabul (Arthur Ernest Henry Macann), officials of the Air Ministry (Thomas Melling Williams and Lawrence Darvall), officials of the India Office (Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold and Alexander Colin Burlington Symon), and officials of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 64; 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:
- Military aircraft
Arms sales - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000555.0x00022b_ar
81055/vdc_100000000555.0x00022b_en
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