File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
IOR/L/PS/10/555
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The record is made up of 1 volume (234 folios). It was created in 19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919. It was written in English and French. 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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Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and administration. The papers cover: an application for an oil concession on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, made to the British Government by the Motor Petrol Association Limited, 1918; an application made to the Government by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) for an extension of their Persia oil concession to cover the ‘Persian Gulf littoral’, 1918; the development of an oilfield at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah] in Mesopotamia, with company expenditure paid from British military funds; discussion of the position of the Turco-Persian frontier in relation to the Naft Khana oilfields; the transfer of territory from Persia to Mesopotamia, and the formation of a new company by APOC to apply for concession rights in this territory; discussion between the British civil administration in Mesopotamia, HM Petroleum Executive, APOC, 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 Foreign Office, on future oil policy in Mesopotamia; the US Ambassador in London’s concern that representatives of the Standard Oil Company of New York were being forbidden to undertake geological surveying work in Mesopotamia, 1919.
The file’s principal correspondents are: the Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia, Arnold Talbot Wilson; 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. ; the Foreign Office; HM Petroleum Executive.
The volume includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (234 folios)
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- 2 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/10/555, f 38
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2249 (Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia) consists of 3 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/555-557. The volumes are divided into 4 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, and parts 3 and 4 comprising the third volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 236; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- English and French 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/10/555
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- P 2249/1915 Pt 1
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- 19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/L/PS/10/555
- Title
- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 232r:233v
- Author
- Greenaway, Charles, 1st Baron Greenway
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 214r:215v
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- Garrow, D
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- 206r:206v
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- Nichols, H E
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 201r:202v, 186r:187v, 175r:175v
- Author
- Follett, Charles J
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 180r:180v
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- House of Commons
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- IOR/L/PS/10/555
- Title
- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
- Pages
- 174r:174v
- Author
- Motor Petrol Association Limited
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 133r:134v
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 132r:133v, 130r:130v, 113r:114v
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- Turco-Persian Frontier Commission (1913)
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- IOR/L/PS/10/555
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 132r:133v
- Author
- Samih, Az
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 130r:132v
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- Etela-ol Mulk
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 107r:107v
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 67r:69v
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- Nichols, H E
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 64r:64v
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- Cadman, John
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- 25r:25v
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- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (xx Anglo-Persian)
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- Cambon, Pierre Paul
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- 10r:10v
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- Davis, John William
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- File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:9v, 11r:19v, 21r:24v, 26r:35v, 39r:63v, 65r:66v, 70r:106v, 108r:112v, 115r:129v, 135r:173v, 176r:177v, 178ar, 178r:179v, 181r:185v, 188r:200v, 203ar, 203r:205v, 207r:209r, 210v:213v, 216r:231v, 234r:235v, 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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- IOR/L/PS/10/555, f 38
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- ‘KHANAQIN’
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- 38r:38v
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