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1. '[Unnumbered file] Dubai Hospital Building Fund.'
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- Abstract: The file contains statements issued by The National Bank of India showing debits and credits to the Dubai Hospital Building Fund (held by the Political Agent, Bahrain) for the period September 1944 to June 1946 inclusive.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 22; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
2. 'Dubai Commercial Air Agreement'
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- Abstract: This printed memorandum is a copy of a commercial air agreement signed by Shaikh Sa'id bin Maktum [Sa‘īd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm], the ruler of Dubai, and Hugh Weightman, Political Agent at Bahrain, on 6 June 1938. The agreement contains fourteen numbered clauses, some with lettered sub-clauses. The agreement is for a commercial landing base for aircraft of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), and regulates construction, maintenance, labour, landing fees, and issues such as liquor.Physical description: Foliation: The foliation number appears in pencil in the top right hand corner.
3. 'File 9/26 India and Persian Gulf Bank Limited'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the proposed opening of a bank called Indian and Persian Gulf Bank Ltd with Iraqi capital, headquarters in Karachi and branches at Kuwait, Dubai and Muscat.There is a letter in Arabic with English translation, and a copy of a letter forwarded by the Residency Agent at Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 39; 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 mixed foliation/pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-38; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. They are located in the same position as the main sequence, except for some instances which are located on the verso.
4. 'File 9/27 Establishment of Imperial Bank of Iran on the Trucial Coast'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the establishment of branches of the Imperial Bank of Iran at Dubai and Muscat.The file contains documents in Arabic and English: two copies (one drafted in 1941) of the banking agreement between Sheikh Said bin Maktum [Shaikh Saʿīd bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm], Ruler of Dubai, and the Imperial Bank of Iran and related correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 90; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-82; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
5. 'File 9/37 Foreign exchange'
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- Abstract: The file mainly contains applications submitted for US dollar exchange for importing goods, plus letters of credit granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain.Subjects discussed within the file are an increase in the quota for imports to the ports of Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and Gwadur, and the purchase of plants for the production of ice in Bahrain.Correspondents include the Persian Gulf Residency at Bahrain, the Eastern Bank Limited, the Imperial Bank of Iran, Petroleum Development Qatar and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain.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 137; 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 1-136; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
6. 'File 9/42 Holloway Bros, Dubai'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain and Holloway Bros, an engineering company in London, which is seeking to establish a branch in Dubai.There is correspondence with the Ruler of Dubai, in Arabic with English translation.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 25; 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 2-24; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
7. 'File 13/1 Silting of Dubai Creek'
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- Abstract: The correspondence in the file is related to the silting up of a creek at Dubai, which is of potential concern for flying boats following the Arab coast route, if they want to stop at Dubai. The file contains an assessment of the creek, made in 1941, by a chartered civil engineer named Bernard Whitteron, assessing the creek and proposing options for dredging and preventing future build-up of silt. The report also contains a hand drawn map of the creek, indicating the creek's deep water channel, unusual shallows, and other features including the Gray MacKenzie office buildings, jetty, and tower (folios 6-11).Physical description: Foliation: The main foliation system starts on the front cover and runs to the inside back cover, using circled pencil numbers in the top-right corner of each recto. There is a second foliation system which uses uncircled numbers in the top-right corner of each folio, and runs from the first item in the file to folio 23.
8. 'File 28/39 Roster of Petroleum Concessions Limited Employees'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) representative, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf on the roster of employees of Petroleum Concessions Limited in Bahrain, Qatar and Dubai and lists of employees.Physical description: The foliation is in pencil in circled numbers in the top right corner of each folio. The numbering starts on the front cover with 1 and carries on until 90, which is the last number given on the back cover of the file.
9. 'File 38/5 P. C. L. Dubai Concession'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to Petroleum Concessions Limited's operations in the territories of Dubai. The correspondence is between the Political Resident at Bushire (later Bahrain) [Persian Gulf Political Residency], the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Officer at Sharjah, and E V Packer, Manager of Petroleum Concessions Limited at Bahrain.The papers within the file cover the matter of the suspension of operations in the region during the Second World War and the initiation of drilling in Dubai in 1950.Folio 8 contains internal office notes.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An addition foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-7; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
10. ‘File 41/2 Arms traffic’
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- Abstract: The file comprises correspondence in response to various reports of arms smuggling in around the Arabian Peninsula. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast (Captain Raymond Clive Murphy; Captain Hugh Dunstan Rance), the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Jasim ibn Muhammad Kadmari), and the British Consular Agent at Lingah (sometimes spelt Lingeh) [Bandar-e Lengeh], D J Stephens.The file includes correspondence concerning:reports of arms and ammunition smuggling from Dubai into the Iranian coast, including several reports from the British Consular Agent at Lingah (for example, ff 15, f 17, and f 23), which were forwarded to the Political Agent at Bahrain, and in turn onwards to the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast or the Residency Agency at Sharjah who reported their investigations into the accuracy of the claims back to the Political Agent;the theft in October 1944 of ammunition from stores at RAF Sharjah, the implication of the RAF Levies in the theft, and the status of RAF investigations and courts martial (ff 6-25);reports of large quantities of SAA (small arms ammunition) dumped by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in shallow waters at Ras al Hadd, and subsequently recovered by the local population and sold to local sheikhs (ff 29-30);British officials’ efforts in 1946 to track the movements of a vessel carrying arms from Mukalla [Al-Mukallā] to Dubai via Muscat (ff 52-57 and ff 61-64);an allegation of arms dealing between the Āl Thānī of Qatar and the Āl Mana of Bahrain, in correspondence exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple-Belgrave) (ff 65-69);the theft of Government rifles from the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Station Manager’s office at Sharjah, in early 1947 (ff 79-80 and f 82);a compensation claim from a nakhuda who was commissioned to transport ammunition for the Royal Navy during the war, and who was subsequently robbed of his cargo and possessions (ff 85-88 and ff 93-97);Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 111; 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 also present in parallel between ff 1-110; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
11. ‘File 22/8 II SHAIKH OF DUBAI’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence, mainly between British officials in the Persian Gulf, discussing the actions of Shaikh Saeed Bin Maktoom [Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Ḥashr Āl Maktūm], Ruler of Dubai, covering the years 1941, 1944, 1946 and 1948-49.The correspondents are as follows: John Baron Howes and his successors Roy Douglas Metcalfe and Patrick Desmond Stobart as Political Officer, Trucial Coast, Sharjah; Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successors Tom Hickinbotham and Cornelius James Pelly as Political Agent, Bahrain; Sayid Abdur Razzaq [Khān Ṣāḥib Sayyid ‘Abd al-Razzāq] and his successor Jassim [Jāsim bin Muḥammad Kadmari] as British Residency Native Agent, Sharjah; and Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay as Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain.The correspondence includes English translations of Arabic letters as follows: Saeed Bin Maktoom to Reza Pahlavi the Emperor of Iran [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran], dated 1948 (folio 11), and an exchange of letters between the Political Agent at Bahrain and Saeed Bin Maktoom, dated 1944 (folios 13 and 16).Topics discussed include:British policy discussions about co-operative measures to be taken for the maintenance of law and order on the Trucial Coast, 1941 (folios 2-7)British interception of two letters from the Ruler of Dubai to the King of Iraq and the Shah of Iran, in 1944 and 1949 respectively, written on behalf of two Dubai subjects, the one case regarding the importation of rice into Dubai from Iraq and the other case regarding the confiscation of merchant goods by Iranian Customs (folios 9-14)British remonstrations to the Ruler of Dubai for making direct representations and requests to foreign rulers on behalf of his subjects, in breach of his agreement of 7 March 1892 with the British Government, 1949 (folios 15-21).Physical description: Foliation: The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; 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 incomplete foliation sequence is also present between ff 2-21; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
12. 'File 8/37 Note by H.M.'s Consul, Bandar Abbas, on Jask Mutineers'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the movements of Dr Habib, an Iranian Government employee and resident of Lar, and based on a note by the British Consul at Bandar Abbas, Reginald Michael Hadow. The correspondence is between the following: Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire [Bushehr]; Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent at Bahrain; and Raymond Clive Murphy, Political Officer on the Trucial Coast.The correspondence contains details of Dr Habib's visit to Dubai and notes on his history.On folio 7 are internal office notes.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 8; 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 2-6; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.