Abstract: Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures.Roads indicated by pecked lines. Shows Qatar and Bahrain.The Southern border of Qatar is indicated by a thick pecked line.Enclosed is a letter on the question of the Southern limit of the Qatar Oil Concession sent by L. Lefroy at the Britannic House, London, to J.G. Laithwhite at the India Office, London, on 18 January 1935 (IOR/R/15/416, folio 4).Inscriptions: Toponyms are in English; Qatar and Dohah [sic] are also translated to Arabic.Physical description: Materials: printed on paperDimensions: 402 x 250 mm; on sheet 415 x 299 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Relief shown by hachures.Roads indicated by pecked lines. Shows Qatar and Bahrain.The Southern border of Qatar is indicated by a thick pecked line.Copy of the map enclosed to a letter on the question of the Southern limit of the Qatar Oil Concession sent by L. Lefroy at the Britannic House, London, to J.G. Laithwhite at the India Office, London, on 18 January 1935 (IOR/R/15/416, folio 4).Inscriptions:Toponyms are in English; Qatar and Dohah are also translated to Arabic.Physical description: Materials: printed on paperDimensions: 402 x 250 mm; on sheet 415 x 299 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Shows the Qatar peninsula with a blue crayon line likely indicating the Southern border, named 'A'.Physical description: Materials: pencil and blue crayon on paperDimensions: 324 x 204 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Shows Doha and the nearby area, including the proposed site of Decca station.Enclosed is a letter from the General Manager of Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited requesting to the Sheikh of Qatar the lease of the land for an electronic survey Station, on 22 May 1949 (IOR/R/15/2/459, folios 60-64).Physical description: Materials: photocopy of a drawingDimensions: 277 x 218 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Reliefs shown by hachures.Shows the approaches to the Petroleum Development Jetty at Zekrit, in the Dohat of Zekrit; it also shows the Jebel Dukhan promontory and the surrounding shoals and water depth.Inscriptions:Descriptive notes on recto:Below the title: 'Soundings in FEET corrected to lowest tide level observed to date 16/1/38.'In the bottom right-hand corner: /Signed/ 'J.F.W.'Physical description: Materials: ink on paper.Dimensions: 340 x 350 mm; on sheet 362 x 372 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: Distinctive Features:Reliefs shown by hachures. Shows the Jebel Dukhan promontory, Dohat et Zehrit, the surrounding shoals and water depth.Inscriptions:Descriptive notes on recto:Below the title: 'Soundings in feet corrected to lowest tide level observed to date 16/1/38.'Physical description: Materials: ink on paperDimensions: 342 x 290 mm; on sheet 369 x 333 mm.Foliation: The map has been foliated in the top right hand corner with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.
Abstract: The file mainly consists of copies of the Roster of Employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (also spelled Bahrein Petroleum Company in the file) (sent to the India Office by the Political Agent, Bahrain), as of 30 September 1939, 31 December 1939, 31 March 1940, 30 June 1940, 30 September 1940, and 31 December 1940, including statements showing the number of the various nationalities employed by the Company.The rosters list the surnames and initials of each employee, and include details such as their designations (roles), the departments they worked in, their nationalities, and whether they were temporary or permanent staff. The rosters are divided into different categories of employees, including: Artizans [Artisans] and Domestic Employees; General, Skilled and Unskilled; U.S. Citizens; and U.K. British Subjects.The file also includes correspondence, of November to December 1940, between the India Office and the Bahrein Petroleum Company Limited and other correspondents, in response to an enquiry from A V Coulter, on behalf of Mrs Mary Patterson, of Carsontown, Saintfield, Northern Ireland, to the Minister of Information, Stormont, Belfast, regarding the whereabouts of an employee of the Bahrein Petroleum Company Limited, Mr J P Hannaford.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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 405; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Papers relating to strikes and social unrest amongst workers on the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s (AIOC) oilfields in southern Iran (frequently referred to as Persia throughout the file), and the AIOC refinery at Abadan. The file’s principal correspondents include: the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougetel; the Counsellor for Indian Affairs at the British Embassy in Tehran, Clarmont Percival Skrine; the Foreign Office.The file covers: initial reports of unrest at Abadan in May 1946; the Tudeh Party of Iran’s perceived involvement in fomenting unrest amongst AIOC employees; unrest amongst Indian AIOC employees, and discussion amongst British officials over plans to repatriate perceived ringleaders back to India; the despatch of Indian troops to Shaiba [Shu‘aybah] in Iraq, that could be deployed to quell social unrest in southern Iran if required; accounts of events on 14 July 1946, in which violent clashes occurred between socialist activists associated with the Tudeh Party who supported AIOC workers, and representatives of the Arab Tribal Union; a facsimile of an account of the events 14 July 1946 written by Vere William Digby Willoughby, British Consul at Khorramshahr (ff 214-249); a report on working and living conditions for Indian AIOC employees, submitted by the Indian Press Officer attached to the British Embassy in Tehran (ff 170-181); a report entitled ‘Social and municipal development carried out by the Anglo-Iranian Company, Limited, in Abadan and the south Persian oilfields’, submitted by the AIOC Chairman, William Fraser (ff 143-162); a report on AIOC labour conditions in Iran, submitted by K J Hird, Labour Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran, dated 31 December 1946 (ff 87-101); the withdrawal of Indian troops from Shaiba in April 1947, in response to a stabilisation of the political situation in Iran; quarterly reports on affairs at AIOC, prepared by HM Consul-General at Khorramshahr, describing worker morale, potentially subversive activities, social improvements for workers, etc.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 557; 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 file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3490A). It consists chiefly of extracts of quarterly reports, prepared by HM Consul-General at Khorramshahr, on affairs at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), and extracts from the Khorramshahr Consulate Diary. The reports concern working conditions and unrest amongst Indian and Pakistani employees at AIOC, and subversive activities amongst AIOC employees. Reference is made in several reports to the activities of the Rashtraya Sevak Sangh group at the AIOC (also referred to as the Hindu Communal Army [Rāṣṭrīya Svayamsēvaka Saṅgha]). Some of the reports in the file are marked top secret.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 33; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Secret papers and correspondence concerning the British Government’s response to the potential threat of Soviet Communist penetration in Persia [Iran] and a perceived increase in influence of the Tudeh Party within the Persian Government. The political crisis was triggered by events at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s refinery at Abadan in July 1946, covered in full in Coll 28/85S (1) ‘Persia. Abadan and S. W. Persian oilfields; Protection of British interests.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3490A).The papers include: an appreciation of the political situation in Persia, along with recommendations for British propaganda activities to counter the Soviet threat, prepared by HM Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougetel; a response to Le Rougetel’s recommendations, prepared by the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Robert George Howe; a further response to Le Rougetel’s recommendations from the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Hugh Weightman; instructions sent by Le Rougtel to British consular officials in Persia, in response to events at Abadan.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 42; 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: Correspondence concerning diplomatic relations between the British and Persian Governments over the concession and operations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (from 1935, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited), referred to as APOC hereafter. The file includes: correspondence dated 1933 to 1935 from the British Consul at Kermanshah, reporting progress of the construction of APOC’s oil refining facilities at Kermanshah; correspondence dated 1939 and 1940 reporting on the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] and his Government’s efforts to renegotiate the terms of the APOC concession, in light of the heightened strategic importance of APOC’s oil production to Britain during wartime conditions; correspondence dated 1941 reporting on wartime developments, the likelihood of German occupation of Iran, and the threat to APOC oil production in the country. The file also includes: two bound and printed copies of the APOC Concession 1933-1993, printed in French and English, and accompanied by a fold-out map of the concession area (ff 127-149, ff 150-172); an illustrated brochure, published by APOC in 1924 to commemorate the company’s stand at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 (ff 109-126).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 188; 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: Correspondence, memoranda, and other papers, concerning relations between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Persian Government, and between the British and Persian governments over APOC operations in Persia [Iran]. The file covers: reports of attacks on APOC drilling operations at Bikarz [Bīd Karz] and Mishun in 1923; Soviet propaganda published against APOC in the Persian province of Khuzistan in 1927; disturbances amongst Persian APOC employees at Abadan in May and June 1929, and the British response to these disturbances, including the despatch of naval vessels to the Persian Gulf; copies of a 1931 memorandum entitled 'South Persian Oilfields Defence Scheme', produced by the Overseas Defence Committee at the Foreign Office (ff 76-86); a 1931 'Report on the Tribes in the Area exploited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd', prepared by R J Moneypenny at HM Consulate, Ahwaz [Ahvāz] (ff 24-54); anti-APOC articles published in the newspaper
Shafaq-e-Surkhin 1931, which criticise the D'Arcy Concession of 1901 (translations enclosed, ff 6-16), and the subsequent protest at the content of the articles made by the British Government to the Persian Government. The volume's principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive; HM Vice-Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Captain E W Fletcher; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.The volume contains a small number of items in French, being correspondence exchanged between the British and Persian Governments and three copies of the Persian newspaper
Le Messager de Teheran(ff 61-66).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 (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 268; 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.