Abstract: The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] and its relationship to the Iraq Petroleum Company Group Agreement of 1928. Also discussed in the correspondence are the interests of the Arabian Development Syndicate and Standard Oil of California.Documents included in the volume are:(ff 227-244) a printed draft of an agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Ruler of Kuwait(ff 399-406) 'Note of interview with Mr Janson and Major Holmes on Friday, 2nd February 1934'(ff 299-301) 'Note of conversation with Mr. Lefroy of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company on 20th April 1934, regarding the Koweit Neutral Zone'(ff 263-266) Letter in Arabic with translations from Ibn Saud to Abdul-Ghani Adlibia map (folio 245) showing Kuwait and the neutral zone.Correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Secretary of State for India; the Political Agent, Kuwait (H.R.P. Dickson); and Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman Al Faisal (Ibn Saud).The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 490; 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 A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait.The discussion in the volume relates to:A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492)A report (ff 447-487) of the Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, Committee of Imperial Defence on the Kuwait oil concessionThe attitude of the Shaikh towards the Eastern and General SyndicateA visit of the Ruler of Kuwait to England as guest of the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited including discussions concerning arrangements for a meeting with the KingDraft agreements for an oil concession between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.Included in the volume is a report (ff 430-433) by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Harold Dickson) of the views of Major Frank Holmes, Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, on the possibility of oil being found in Kuwait, Bahrain and the Gulf generally.The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; officials of the Petroleum Department; the General-Manager, Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Edward Henry Omanney); and the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ).The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 498; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: The volume is composed of two parts, IOR/L/PS/10/989/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/989/2.IOR/L/PS/10/989/1 is formed of telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf.IOR/L/PS/10/989/2 is concerned with the travels of two individuals in pursuit of oil concessions in the Arabian Peninsula.Correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; officials of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company; and rulers of the Arab Gulf.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 363; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: This volume contains papers relating to the construction of the Trans-Persian Railway. It contains material relating to:The Persian Railway Syndicate’s attempt to enlist the aid of Rabbi Joseph Saul Kornfeld, the United States Envoy to Persia [Iran], and the British Foreign Office’s subsequent unfavourable attitude towards the SyndicateThe Persian Railway Syndicate’s proposal to invite American companies for the construction of railways in PersiaThe concessions for the Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]-Khanakin [Khanaqin] and Khanakin-Tehran railwaysThe proposed railway from Khanakin to Tehran and the estimated cost for the three principal divisions of the railwayThe restrictions of the British Government on the Persian Railway Syndicate’s grant of a loan to the Persian GovernmentThe possibility of a ‘fusion of interests’ between the Persian Railway Syndicate and the Stronach Dutton System of Road Rails LimitedThe possible extension of the American Chester Group’s railway concession from Turkey into PersiaThe plans of the Prime Minister of Persia [Rezā Khān Sardār Sepah] for a railway line extending from Ahwaz [Ahvaz] to Khorramabad, Dizful [Dezful], and Sultanabad [Arak] to TehranThe endeavour of an American group to obtain a concession for a line from Mohammerah to Khorramabad and TehranThe expenditures of the Persian Railway Syndicate for the Khanakin-Tehran and the Mohamerah-Khoramabad surveysThe possibility of forming a Railway Syndicate with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and Standard Oil CompanyThe Persian Government’s decision to carry out a survey of the Mohammerah-Tehran-Bandar-i Gez [Bandar-i Gaz] railway line with the assistance of a German engineerThe Consortium industriel pour l’Orient’s proposal to build a railway connecting Meshed [Mashhad] to the Tripoli-Homs LineThe preference of the British Army Council and the Air Council for an East-West rather than a North-South railway in Persia for strategic reasonsThe exploitation of coal and iron deposits in Mazanderan [Mazandaran] for the construction of railways in Persia, and the concerns of Russia about a Trans-Persian Railway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Caspian SeaThe Act of the Persian Majlis [Parliament] for the construction of the Persian Trunk RailwayThe Persian Majlis’s Passage of the Bill for Railway Survey and ConstructionThe Persian Majlis’s passage of the Railway Construction Bill, from Mohammerah and Bandar-i Gez to TehranThe Persian Majlis’s passage of a law for constructing a railway between Khor Musa-Mohammerah-Bandar-i Gez;The Persian Majlis’s authorisation of the Minister of Public Work to employ foreign experts for the construction of the Railway;The inauguration of the Bandar-i Gaz-Tehran-Ahwaz Railway in the presence of the Shah of Persia [Rezā Shāh Pahlavi]The British concerns and preference for a British rather than an American firm to build the Southern Section of the RailwayThe passage of the Railway Survey Law by the Persian Majlis and the contract between the Persian Government and the American company Ulen, and two German companies, Philipp Holzmann and Julius Berger-Siemens Union [sic., Siemens Bauunion] to carry out a complete survey of the RailwayThe contract between the Persian Government, represented by Minister of Public Works [General Ḥabib Allāh Khān Shaybānī], and the Persian Railway Syndicate, represented by MD Carrel and MNS MavrogordatoThe contracts between the Persian Government and the Persian Railway Syndicate for the constructions of ports at Bandar-i Qays and Khor Musa (Bandar-i Shahpur) and a dam over the Karun River at AhwazThe plans for building the line from Bandar Shapur north of Ahwaz, and revival of the line from Hamadan to TehranThe construction of the railway lines from Bandar Shah and Khor Musa, the diversion of German resources to the construction of electrical and cement works, and the postponement of building a port at Khor MusaThe reservations of the British Minister in Persia [Robert Henry Clive] about the construction of the Railway as opposed to motor roads in Persia, and the subsidisation of the enterprise through the tea and sugar monopoliesThe increase in the cost of the Southern Section of the Railway and predicted opposition of the Persian GovernmentThe visit by the Shah of Persia to the Southern Section of the Railway, his unfavourable impression of the state of the railway, and the American Minister in Persia’s advice to Ulen and Company to stop working on the railway in case of difficulties with the Persian GovernmentThe cancellation of the contract between the Persian Government and the Persian Railway Syndicate over delayed payments, and the agreement between the German and Ulen groups within the Syndicate to work on the Northern and Southern sections of the Trans-Persian Railway respectivelyThe Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s concerns about the Railway providing greater access and mobility to the RussiansThe dispute between the Persian Government and the German-American syndicate for the construction of the RailwayThe negotiations between the Persian Government and the German companies Julius Berger Konsortium, Philipp Holzmann, and Siemens Bauunion for the construction of the Northern Section of the Trans-Persian RailwayThe possible takeover by the Batignolles Construction Company of the building of the Southern Section of the Trans-Persian Railway from the American and British companies Ulen and Company and Stewart and McDonnellThe Persian Government’s appointment of Suzuki Hajime from the Japanese Railway Department’s Engineering BureauThe breakdown of negotiations between the Batignolles Construction Company and the Government of Persia, and the latter’s decision to proceed with the construction of the remaining sections of the railwayThe proposals of the Batignolles Construction Company to the Government of Persia in the absence of a contractThe extension of the Southern Section of the Railway from Khor Musa to Dizful, Hamadan and Kazvin [Qazvin], and the Northern Section from Tehran to Sari and the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.The volume also includes the following sketch maps:A sketch map of the Trans-Persian Railway, from Khor Musa to Sari and the coast of the Caspian Sea, showing the ‘Line Completed’, ‘Line Surveyed’, and ‘Division between the Northern and Southern Sections’ (f 14)A sketch map of the Northern Section of the Railway, showing the routes to Pahlavi, Semnan, and Balfurush [Barfurush], with a second map of the Southern Section, showing alternative routes and termini, running either from Mohammerah or Khor Musa to Dizful and Hamadan (f 156)A sketch map showing the existing and projected railways in Persia (f 204).Physical description: Foliation: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 573; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence relating to the grant of mineral concessions by the Persian Government to the Persian merchant Haji Agha Mohammed Moin-ut-Tojar Dehdashty (referred to as Muin-ut-Tujjar), and the award of export sales contracts for the mined Hormuz oxide to the two rival British companies Frank C Strick Company Limited of London and Messrs Ellinger and Company of Manchester. The main correspondents are British officials in the Foreign Office and India Office in London, the British Minister at Tehran, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Viceroy of India. Their correspondence includes English translations of Muin-ut-Tujjar’s concessions of 1904 and 1913 to mine red oxide, salt and sulphur in the Persian Gulf islands of Hormuz, Kishm, Larak, Henjam and the ports of Bostaneh and Bander Khamir. There are also letters and telegrams between Frank C Strick & Company Limited and their agent in Teheran, together with a copy in English of their export sales contract with the Persian Government for Hormuz red oxide. There is a small amount of correspondence in French, mainly between Belgian civil servants employed in Persian Customs administration in Teheran and the port of Bunder Abbas.The file includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 290; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf.The discussion in the volume relates to:The activities of Major Frank HolmesDraft agreements for an oil concession with the Shaikh of KuwaitAmerican pressure to ease the British exclusive clause for oil concessions.The principal correspondents include: the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London; the Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, H G Nichols.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 301; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait.The discussion in the volume relates to:The 'nationality clause' whereby any concession granted had to be to a British concernCorrespondence between British officials in London and the Gulf as to how to respond to the request of an American company to be allowed to bid for an oil concession in KuwaitComparison of draft agreements for an oil concession between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, Ruler of Kuwait, and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, or alternatively, an American company, e.g. the Eastern and General Syndicate LimitedCorrespondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London, and United States Embassy in London concerning the concessionConcerns of the Admiralty Office over strategic reserves of oil for the Royal Navy.Included in the volume is a report (ff 430-433) by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), of the views of Major Frank Holmes, Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, on the possibility of oil being found in Kuwait, Bahrain and the Gulf generally.The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Office, London; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the General Manager, Anglo-Persian Oil Company (Neville A Gass); the Advocate, the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited (Frank Holmes); the Secretary, the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited (H T Adams); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ); and the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, the United States Embassy, London (Ray Atherton).The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 457; 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 between ff 31-457, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.