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'File 10/8 Overseas trade enquiries' [‎98v] (197/495)

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The record is made up of 1 file (249 Folios). It was created in 23 Jul 1929-29 Nov 1934. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Group 10 (contd.).
Photographic and Cinematographic
Apparatus and Supplies.
Scientific Glassware.
Scientific Instruments (other than those
appertaining to the engineering trades).
Spectacle Ware and Opticians' Supplies.
Group 11.— Sports Goods, Toys, Baby
Carriages, etc.
Baby Carriages.
Sports Goods (including fishing tackle,
guns, etc.).
Sports Clothing.
Toys and Games.
Group 12.— Stationery, Printing, Office Appli
ances, etc.
Office Appliances.
Metal Office Furniture.
Paper.
Printing.
Publishing.
Stationery and Stationers' Sundries.
Group 13.— Textiles, Clothing and Footwear.
Boots and Shoes.
Furnishing Drapery.
Furs.
Group 13 (contd.).
Gloves.
Haberdashery and smallwares (other than
hard haberdashery).
Hats and Millinery.
Hosiery.
Lace and Embroidery.
Linen (bed and table).
Outfitting and Underwear.
Piece-Goods,
lleadymade Clothing.
Yarns and Threads.
Group U.—General and Sales Services Section.
Advertising and Publicity.
Banking.
Export Trade Journals.
Insurance.
Packing.
Trade Journals catering for trades repre
sented in the London Section of the Fair.
Transport.
Special machinery solely employed in the
manufacture or production of the articles in
cluded in the Schedule is eligible for exhibition
in the appropriate group.
General machinery and machinery common
to several trades is not eligible for inclusion
in the London Section of the Fair.
Birmingham.
Organised by the Birmingham Chamiber of Commerce, under the auspices of the Board of Trade.
Address: 95, New Street, Birmingham.
Group 1.—Hardware, Ironmongery and Brass-
foundry.
(а) Military, naval, cabinet, domestic and
general brassfoundry. General hardware,
safes, locks, hinges, handles, bolts, springs,
staples, nails. Sheet metal work, cash and
deed boxes and trunks of all descriptions.
Metal furniture for garden, camp and the
like. Hearth furniture. General hollow-
ware, copper and bronze goods (excluding
fancy goods). General wire work and wire
goods. Domestic washing and labour-saving
appliances, knife cleaning machines, etc.
Household woodware, string, cord and
twine. Preserving bottles and jars.
(б) Farm and Garden Equipment.—Dairy
utensils, milk separators, churns, cowhouse
equipment, poultry equipment, stable fit
ments and appointments, harness, cart gear.
Farm and garden tools and furniture,
barrows, ladders, sprayers, lawn mowers and
rollers. Wire netting and fencing. Guns
and ammunition.
Group 2.— General Heating and Cooking
{mainly by solid fuel).
Stoves, ranges, boilers, grates, fireplaces,
mantels and surrounds of all descriptions,
tiles, etc. Baths (also in Group 4).
Group 3.— Gas.
Manufacture and Distribution.—Retorts
and carbonizing plant; exhausters;
scrubbers, washers and purifiers; holders,
governors and station meters; coke screen
ing plant; pyrometers, gauges, recorders,
and laboratory equipment; paints and joint
ing material. Boosters; valves; meters.
Utilisation. — Gas engines; industrial
furnaces and heating appliances; cocks,
governors and fittings; street lamps, light
ing burners and mantles; fires, cookers,
water heaters and domestic appliances.
Group 4.— Building and Decoration, Public
Works and Roads.
(a) Building and Decoration.—Bricks,
tiles, terra cotta, slates, chimneys, drain
pipes, timber, joinery, mouldings. Cast
ings, rainwater and soil goods. Plumbers'
brassfoundry (also in Group 1). Cisterns
and tanks (also in Group 1). Lead goods.
Wrough iron, art metal work and steel
equipment. Builders' ironmongery (also in
Group 1). Central heating and ventilation.
Sanitary water supply, bathroom fittings
(also in Group 2). Decorators' materials,
paints, distempers, varnishes, wall -papers.
(&) Publie Works and Roads.—Portable
Compressors, drills, excavators, trench
pumps, stone brakers, screens, rollers, con
crete, mixes, tar boilers and spayers. Pipes,
culverts, manhole and drain covers, kerbs,
pavings. Cement, road metal, asphalt; tar ;
signposts. Sewage and refuse disposal
plants. Structural steel, ferro concrete,
hoists, derricks, cranes, lifts. Roofs and
roofing material.
Group b—Metals {Ore and Semi-manufac
tured, excluding precious metals).
All kinds of ferrous and non-ferrous
metals and alloys, iron and steel bars,
angles, tees and sections, plates, sheets,
hoops, castings, forgings, stampings, press
ings, wire, rods, tubes and fittings, stain
less metals and tool steels.
Group 6.— Transport.
(а) Railways.— Engines, rolling stock and
all equipment.
(б) Motors.—Motors, motor lorries,
tractors, cycles and all accessories.
(c) Aircraft.
{d) Shipping.
Group 7.— Mining.
Mining, colliery and quarrying machinery
and equipment. Also oil-field equipment.

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Correspondence between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and customs officials in Bahrain, and United Kingdom companies relating to trade in Bahrain. The file includes papers concerning an upsurge in orders for bicycles in Bahrain, 1929. Other commodities covered include mother of pearl and the pearl trade, Lingah shells (known in European markets as 'Bombay shells'), bedsteads, margarine and related products, electric generating sets and motor engines for motor launches, cloth, cotton, silks, machine tools, condensed milk and chocolate, biscuits, sharks' skins, locks, sport goods, scotch whisky and a proposal for a golf course. The objective was to increase the volume and range of trade carried on in Bahrain by British firms. The papers also include reports, and correspondence with local companies in Bahrain.

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1 file (249 Folios)
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: The system of foliation in use appears in a circle in the top right-hand corner of each folio. The file is also foliated 1-15, 19-256 (uncircled).

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