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‘File 7/25 Complaints regarding sale of R.A.F. stores’ [13r] (27/78)
The record is made up of 1 file (37 folios). It was created in 22 Feb 1947-21 Aug 1947. 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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Telegram
From
To
No.71.
Dated the 19th of March, 1947.
G.T.C.
Political, Bahrain.
Political, Sharjah.
Correspondence ending with your demi-official
telegram No.311, dated March 16th.
2. While I agree that speed and secrecy with
which vehicles and spares appear to have been sold give
rise to suspicion, the main charge is that existence and
sale of spares was concealed from Sharjah and Rashid.
This apparently depends' upon their statements alone, and
these are not reliable enough for me to base a case upon
them.
3. If Sharjah and/or Rashid had really wanted
you to be able to help them effectively they should have
dealt through you only from the beginning.
4. Did Disposals Officer offer any explanation
for not inviting tenders for vehicles and spares as
promised, cf. paragraph 3 of your demi-official letter
No.296.0430, dated March 14th.
s.)
-POLITICAL-
NS.
12.
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The file’s correspondence and other papers relate to complaints raised by Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr, ruler of Sharjah, over the manner in which surplus Royal Air Force (RAF) equipment (including motor vehicles, spare parts, and a power plants) was sold at Sharjah. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (Gordon Noel Jackson), the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway until March 1947, Cornelius James Pelly thereafter) and an unnamed British Stores Disposal Officer based at Sharjah. The complaints relate to allegations that the purchase of equipment was secured by two Bahraini merchants in agreement with the Disposal Officer, prior to Shaikh Sultan and others having the opportunity to bid. This in turn led to a dispute over the level of customs duty payable on the sold equipment, which would have to be released from Sharjah for transport to Bahrain. An example of a ‘British Disposal Mission Sales Voucher’, dated 8 April 1947, is included in the file (folio 29).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (37 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest items at the front of the file to the latest at the end. Circled index numbers written using blue/red crayon can also be found throughout the volume, and refer to the office notes at the end of the file (folios 35-37).
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Foliation: The foliation sequence starts on the front cover and ends on the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found 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 following foliation anomalies occur: 1, and 1A.
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- IOR/R/15/2/288
- Title
- ‘File 7/25 Complaints regarding sale of R.A.F. stores’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar:1av, 2r:4v, 6r:37v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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