File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’

Content

The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsche Bank, the British-backed National Bank of Turkey, and the Anglo-Saxon Oil Company (ASOC, a division of Royal Dutch Shell) are the principal claimants.

The papers largely deal with the British Government’s concern that APOC achieve a predominant position in any final concession, at the cost of ASOC and the National Bank of Turkey, the latter holding a stake in the Turkish Petroleum Company. The principal correspondents in the volume are: the president of the National Bank of Turkey (Sir Henry Babington Smith); the Managing Director of APOC (Charles Greenway); Foreign Office representatives (Alwyn Parker; Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe); Deutsche Bank board member Emil Georg von Stauß.

The correspondence covers:

• the withdrawal of the National Bank of Turkey from concessions negotiations;
• negotiations between officials representing the British Government and Deutsche Bank over the form of any concession agreement;
• arrangements for the division of Turkish petroleum concession interests between the British and German Governments, the Deutsche Bank, National Bank of Turkey, the ASOC and APOC.

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject (Turkey in Asia: oil concessions) and part number (2), the year the subject file was opened (1912), and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (f 1).

Extent and format

1 volume (148 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 3877 (Turkey in Asia: oil concessions) consists of 3 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/300-302. The volumes are divided into 5 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume each, and parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising a third volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last with folio 148; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/301

Former external reference(s)

File 3877/1912 Pt 2

History of this record

Date(s)

28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

MergersConcessions, Oil, IraqPetroleum industryImperialism

Places

PersiaMesopotamia

People & organisations

Deutsche BankForeign OfficeAnglo-Iranian Oil Company LimitedNational Bank of TurkeyAnglo-Saxon Petroleum CompanyRoyal Dutch Shell, oil companyImperial Government of the Ottoman Empire

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