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'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters' [69r] (144/506)
The record is made up of 1 volume (248 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1926-24 Dec 1931. It was written in English and Arabic. 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.
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D.0»Ho.C/5^ dated the 6th July 1929#
The Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrein.
L
Please refer to your d.o. No. I7?|s dated the 29th May
I am not surprised that the R.A»F find Vespers estimate high,
as they know nothing ahout building and merely asked for a tender
and added on a percentage for their
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
charges* What I re
commended to Howe was that until they have made up their minds
exactly what they are going to do at Bahrein# they should use
Extents on concrete foundations, with thatch roofs over the
tents. This would cost them very little. Howe seemed impressed
hy this suggestion, once it was explained to him what an E.P.
tent was.
2. As regards (b) I said that I would have the corner
points whitewashed, but I certainly never said that I would iceep
the aerodrome free from encroachments. As you know, the finding
of water near the surface, or at any rate readily accessible to
artesian wells, has made property here very valuable, and I do
not see how owners can be x revented from developing their pro
perty simply because the R.A.F may want to fly over it some day.
If you wish me to do so, I will ask the Land Department to try
and discover who owns what portions of it, and if much of it is
unclaimed mk the Shaikh to give the HJUP the refusal of it. >
Or perhaps you think the State ought to provide the R.A.F with a
free aerodrome ? I see no reason why they should, and when the
Air Commodore suggested to Belgrave that gangs of State prisoners
might chip, place and roll in white stones to marke the centre
of the ground neither of us 1 rose. 1
P/-C('• '
/V-
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bushire, Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat; officials in the 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. and the Government of India; the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; officials of the Air Ministry, London; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the Bahrain Government; RAF (Royal Air Force) officials at the Iraq Command; the High Commissioner of Iraq at Baghdad; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and members of No. 203 Squadron RAF.
The correspondence concerns the establishment of an air route along the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; seaplane reconnaisance missions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. carried out by No. 203 Squadron RAF; the construction of landing grounds, seaplane anchorages and refuelling stations at various locations along the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including Kuwait, al-Ḥasā’, Bahrain, Qatar, Ṣīr Banī Yās, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwayn, Ra's al-Khaymah, Muscat and Maṣīrah island.
Also included within these papers are:
- Sketch map of northern Bahrain depicting Manamah and Sitrah Island (f. 85);
- Notes by the Air Staff on the Regulations of Air Control in Undeveloped Countries, dated 21 November 1928 (f. 65);
- Plan Showing Landing Ground in Bahrein (f. 108B);
- Details of Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond's 1929 air journey to India;
- Details of Under-Secretary of State for Air Sir Philip Sassoon's 1931-32 air journey to India.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (248 folios)
- Arrangement
This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled and can be found in the top right of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Title
- 'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:22v, 22ar:22av, 23r:76v, 78v:84v, 86r:107v, 108ar:108av, 109r:118v, 121v:122v, 124v:163v, 163ar:163av, 164r:198v, 198ar:198av, 199r:246v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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