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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [165r] (342/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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-16-
o ^ ^ in 1945 have been completed and 13 additional
?! f 00 ? ar e in the course of construction. The
increased number of families also necessitated a 2-room
extension to the Awali school. The 52 room bunkhouse no
longer required for living quarters is being converted
into a native hospital.
(k) Personnel.
The following gives a summary of the personnel
employed by the Company on their regular operations and
on additional construction work during the years-
Americans
British (U.K.)
Canadians
South Africans
Other Europeans
British Indians
Iraqis
Bahreinis
Others
Total
120 (Including 18 Con-
trac tors 1 employees)
348
60
24
11
554
8
3,170
641
4,936
22. PETROLEUM CONCESSIONS LIMITED .
(i) This year the company were able to resume geological
exploration and drilling in their various concessionary
areas in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. A geophysical survey party
visited the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
in the spring and again in the
autumn of 1946. Arrangements had been made for a seismic
survey party to visit Qatar in the autumn but the U.S.A.
seamen 1 s strikes delayed the party, and they are now
expected to begin work early in 1947•
(ii) QATAR .
In April, 1946, Dukhan Camp was re-opened and pre
parations made for a drilling programme to be started in
the autumn. This plan was abandoned in October and it was
decided instead to xjap speed up production, and toMi
January, 1949, was fixed as a provisional date for the
first export, preliminary general surveys were carried out
in November along the projected route of a pipe-line and
pipe line road and locations for a terminal oil dock site,
a permanent camp, and unloading points for heavy equipment
were examined. It has been proposed to build a road from
a new harbour near Al Hamlah on the west coast of Qatar
across the peninsula to a jetty at Wakrah, with forks to
Doha and a terminal oil dock in the vicinity of El Arrif.
More will be known of the practicability of these proposals
when H.M.S. "Challenger" has completed her survey of Qatar
territorial waters which she began in November of this year.
(iii) TRITGIAL COAST.
in the first part of the year surface geology was
carried out in the following areasi-
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (203 folios)
- Arrangement
There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- IOR/R/15/1/720
- Title
- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence