'File 10/4 V Trade Reports' [‎352v] (709/776)

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In addition to tho abovo, local sales of petrolcu.n products
aaountod to 160,^3 tons, of which 163,288 toua consisted jf coke sold
to and exported by the Oreat JUikes < arbon Corporation.
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During th<3 ynar the Uritiah Overseas Airways Corporation
cosaplotod its return to a v^cetijae footing by abolishing the special
Royal Air Force services and by discontinuing so:.e of th«lr >wn services#
In January, l;>47 f they withdrew the "C" Class flying boats which they
were using on the Cairo*Bahrain-Karachl runs thus depriving Bahrain
of both t;ie Durban-Calcutta and the Cairo-Karachi schedules and break-
In.-, up the air link ./it i tie Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Mo other service nad rep
laced these flying bouts by the end of the fiscal year under rRvlew,
but the Corporation had agroeri to operate f'i \:i e.-riy flyingbo^t
service j between the nit id Kingd" r. and Bah tin, v> a^shuttl i?
service b«t/enn Bahrain and Karachi*
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Freight charges on cargo remained the su.ae «s those of
last year. There w^s a grotat Increase ov^r the pr«:vlous yec*r in the
number of vesselj calling at Bahrain, the incr use boing narked In
the case of tankers, mw British arid American car^"? ships.
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Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie & Comuany Limiteci, B^hr^in, lalntalned
26 steel barges with an average capacity of 180 to rw tons, and in
addition the British India otean Navigation Company Liraited maintained
9 country boats with an average capacity of about 85 to 30 tons.
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toaie repsiii 5 were done during the period under report, but
the general condition of t « roads^iot sat1 factory An East India Company trading post. .
During the year under review the following vehicles were
registered:-
Private motor car^ and taxis
Cohere Ial vehicles
284
446
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The standard of living re<iaine <1 lo > There was an Increase
in wage rutea, but the cost of living continued to rise.
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At the end of the year under report there ^ere 4607 Bahrain
subjects ^id other Asiatics ( including 660 Indl jis) in the amploy of
the Bahrain Petrol aum Company, in addition to 96 aaerlcan 377 British,
63 CanadWo and oouth Afrlc as.
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