Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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The record is made up of 1 volume (568 folios). It was created in 2 Jan 1930-19 Feb 1935. 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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The volume contains correspondence regarding the purchase by the Afghan Government of arms, ammunition and explosives from a number of sources, including the War Office and British and French firms.
It includes communications between British officials (HM Minister in Kabul and the Foreign Office) and the Afghan Foreign Ministry and Afghan legations to Paris and London, regarding: requests to purchase and transport materials; negotiations over customs dues and transport costs; requests for the recommendation of arms firms; and the quality of materials supplied by private companies.
Folios 552-567 consist of a memo titled 'Applications for the Export of Arms and Munitions to Afghanistan', providing details of the procedures to be followed, and a copy of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1921).
The file also contains correspondence between British and Indian officials (the War Office, the Board of Trade, 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. Political Department, the Government of India Political Department, the Collector of Customs at Karachi) and a number of British firms, regarding: informal requests for permission to sell or transport munitions to the Afghan Government; applications for export licences; concerns over the quality and source of munitions; and details of alleged attempts by a German firm to supply arms, in possible violation of Article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles. The firms include: Messrs A Fleming; Gray, Dawes & Company; Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company; Imperial Chemical Industries Limited; and Machine Tools (India) Limited. The correspondence also includes information on the involvement of the French firm L'Office Générale de l'Air, and its dealings with Messrs A Fleming.
The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folios 4-5).
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- 1 volume (568 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 570; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- English in Latin script
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- 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4
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- 2 Jan 1930-19 Feb 1935 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 559r:559v, 411r:411v, 378r:378v, 384r:384v, 386r:386v, 333r:334v, 267r:267v, 307r:307v, 163r:163v, 19r:19v
- Author
- Government of Afghanistan
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 530r:530v, 519r:519v
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- Glanvill, Enthoven and Company
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 500r:500v, 446r:446v
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- House of Commons
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- Public Domain
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 442r:442v, 277r:277v, 282r:282v, 286r:287v, 220r:220v, 227r:229v, 233r:233v
- Author
- Hutchison, A
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 421r:422v, 315r:315v, 290r:290v
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- Messrs A Fleming and Company
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 409r:409v
- Author
- Gray, Dawes & Company
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 337r:338v, 340r:340v, 351r:352v, 322r:322v, 258r:258v, 306r:306v
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- Karachi Port Trust
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 339r:339v, 351r:351v, 176r:176v, 182r:182v
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- Government of Afghanistan
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 214r:214v, 218r:218v, 241r:241v, 185r:185v, 192r:192v, 97r:98v, 65r:65v
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- Government of Afghanistan
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 174r:174v
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- Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company
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- ©Inchcape plc
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 175r:175v
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- Gray, Dawes & Company
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- ©Inchcape plc
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- Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2173
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 10r:10v
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- Government of Afghanistan
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- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- 10r:10v
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- Unknown translator
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- Title
- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:8v, 11r:18v, 20r:22v, 24r:30v, 32r:40v, 43r:46v, 48r:59v, 64r:64v, 66r:87v, 89r:91v, 93r:96v, 99r:110v, 112r:127v, 129r:162v, 164r:173v, 177r:181v, 183r:184v, 186r:191v, 193r:213v, 215r:217v, 219r:219v, 221r:226v, 230r:232v, 234r:240v, 242r:257v, 259r:266v, 268r:276v, 278r:281v, 283r:285v, 288r:289v, 291r:305v, 308r:314v, 316r:321v, 323r:332v, 335r:336v, 341r:350v, 353r:355v, 360r:366v, 368r:377v, 379r:383v, 385r:385v, 387r:408v, 410r:410v, 412r:420v, 423r:441v, 443r:445v, 447r:499v, 501r:502v, 502ar:502av, 503r:514v, 517r:518v, 520r:529v, 531r:558v, 560r:569v, 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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