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Development Company. Avas first registered in 1928 with a nominal capital of
£82,500, the original directors being Sir Edward Manville (chairman),
Sir Edward Mountain (chairman of the Eagle Star and British Dominions
Insurance Company) (Sir E. Mountain subsequently became chairman of the
British Oil Development Company), the late Admiral Lord Wester Wemyss,
W. R. Brown (representing Lord Inverforth), General Sir A. Mola (Italy), three
representatives of the Italian Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli, and E. C.
Simmons (solicitor). At some stage, but when it actually occurred is not clear
from the information available, German and Franco-Swisa interests were also
included.
The capital in 1931 was stated to be held in the following proportions :—
British
Italian
German
Franco-Swiss
Percentage.
52
24
12
12
100
ti • lT J ?f cember 193 ? a new company was formed, known as “ Mosul Oil-fields
(Limited), ” to acquire the shares in the British Oil Development Company
and to carry on its operations. The company had a nominal capital of £1
millon m £1 shares. In March 1933 the board of this company was re
constructed, and the Foreign Office informed by the company that the directorate
was as follows :—
Viscount Goschen {chairman).
Other British directors (5) : Sir Edward Mountain (deputy chairman)
the late Admiral Lord Wester Wemyss, Lord Glenconner (director
of Hambro’s Bank), W. R. Brown (director of British Union Oil
Company), and Sir Ahvin Dickinson (formerly the represen
tative of the British GoA^ernment on the British Phosphate Com
mission) as managing director.
Italian directors (3) : Professor Alessandro Martelli, Gr. Uff. Arnaldo
Petretti, and Gr. Uff. Vittorio Amoretti (Azienda Generale Italiana
Petroli).
German directors (2) : Herr Thomas BroAvn and Herr M. Hirschfeld.
French director (1) : M. Paul Girod.
Iraq thirtle e n nmeilt direct ° r (1) : Jafar Pasha-el-Askeri, a total of
The company is not known to be at present interested in Saudi Arabia.
A PnnP 6 Anglo-Persian Oil Company (J.P.O.C.).-See at (1) above as to
Th^ A P O ^ m t * he and . the restrictions imposed thereby,
he A.P.O.C. has however, m addition to its main concession in Persia Avhich
I 1 / 1 ® oofn ® onf }f med J ) y a revised agreement Avith the Persian Government dated
the 29th April, 1933, a separate interest also in Iraq, where, through its sub-
rn lf ia T ’ , tlie M Klia ? 1( l m 0l1 Company, it has a concession in the “ Transferred
Territories M under agreements Avith the Iraq Government on the 30th AmW
1925, and the 24th May, 1926. It also ha s freedom of action in Koweit Xe
it is competmsr for a concession with the Eastern and General Sv^dicX
representing the Gulf Oil Corporation. general Syndicate,
• 1 4) E k astern T d Gen e ra * Syndicate. —This is a British comnanv
registered in August 1920 with a nominal capital of £125,300. The chairman
and managing director is E- W Jansen, and the other directors are F W
Gamble. H. T. Adams and P. C. Tarbutt. It has, at various times aconired
concessions in Bahrein and Arabia, but has never carried out anv realty ef£c
five work its sole object being apparently to obtain concessions and traffic^
them to other parties. The company at one time apnroached the -
without success, and in 1927 and 1929 transferred^rfutrests to tb
Gulf Oil Corporation of IT. S. A. [see under (5 below)] Its Lctl ^1? T”
tive is Major F. Holmes. ;J ' lts lo cal represents-