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File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.' [17v] (43/374)
The record is made up of 1 volume (183 folios). It was created in 24 Apr 1905-7 Feb 1917. 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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If, however, the iron work arrives before the expiry of the current official vear thp
amount upto the indent on England can be spent. This will be determined when the
indent is prepared and reported. wuea me
9. The rent statements will be submitted shortly.
P.-S.—The amount of each tender will be within the amount of the
estimate for each work including contingencies.
sanctioned
(2) Security deposit at 5 per cent, has been entered in the tenders as a
special case as a facility for the contractor and may please be passed.
Letter No. 37—331, dated the 12th June 1915.
From—Strick, Scot & Company, Ltd. ;
To The Executive Engineer, Karachi Buildings District:
™ fi We baVe tl } e h ?n?u r J° acknowled g e receipt of your telegram of 8th instant and to
on him our reply of 9th idem, to the effect that we would post by this mail our tender
for the proposed coaling pier, etc., for Koweit.
We have, however, been compelled to cable you again that it is after all impossible
our Explanation. ^ tenderS ’ and we have asked y° u to awaifj recei Pt of this letter for
hp E f I1 ^ 1 ] aeer has ; regret to say, been taken very unwell at a stage when
he had but partially completed estimates for the work in question. We have no
ssistant of sufficient local knowledge or experience to complete calculations and
consequently we are unable to proceed further in the matter for the time being.
Our Chief Engineer is somewhat seriously ill, so that we fear he will be unable to
a end to any business for some weeks, and in view of the urgency wiffi which you ha^e
called for our tender, we have no other course but to withdraw. ^
in vi^^pE^E iS With VGry great re g refc . we are compelled so to do, particularly
thereby ° f ^ ^ * S ° me mconvenience Wlll > we fear, have been caused to you
however it is at all possible for the contract to be held open for a time we shall
so OnlhEcEanP of P ^ h t0 SUb u, ifc our f e ^ de . rs . immediately we are in a position to do
so. On the chance of your being able and desiring to arrange accordingly we shall
wire you when our Chief Engineer is again in office g y , We SJia11
^ T- ea E ime ’T have n p0sted to you ’ under registered cover, the two files of
Bushire eStlmateS> submifcted us by the Sub-Engineer,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Division,
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The volume contains part 5 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait].
The principal correspondents are 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); 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. at Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox, later Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station (Rear-Admiral Edmond John Warre Slade); the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Public Works Department, Bombay Castle; and senior officials at the Foreign Office, 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 Government of India, and the Admiralty.
The papers cover: the proposal (made by Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor, British Ambassador at Constantinople) to establish a coal depot at Kuwait after the withdrawal by the Government of the Ottoman Empire from British steamship companies of coaling privileges at Basra, and the move rendered unnecessary after the restoration of those privileges, April-August 1905, (ff 158-181); the proposal 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Cox) to replace the coal depot for British naval ships at Bushire with one at Kuwait, May 1907 - January 1908 (ff 153-157); the selection by the Government of India of a suitable site at Kuwait (with maps and plans, folios 125, 126, 128), and the approval of the Admiralty and Foreign Office, July 1908 - August 1910 (ff 106-152); further correspondence, plans, and estimates, including a memorandum dated 31 March 1911 (ff 88-94) by the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station (Slade), criticising plans for the proposed coal depot as being on too large a scale, and the proposal deferred pending the outcome of negotiations with the Turkish Government, August 1910 - May 1913 (ff 36-105); Foreign Office approval for the immediate transfer of the coal depot from Bushire to Kuwait, January-August 1915 (ff 15-35); and the decision by the Government of India to postpone the transfer until the end of the [First World] war, November-December 1916 (ff 3-14).
Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents in the volume, including the Secret (later Political and Secret) Department minute/reference papers, which are dated 1905-17.
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- 1 volume (183 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 1855 (Koweit [Kuwait]) consists of five volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/47-51. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, parts 3 and 4 comprising the second volume, part 5 comprising the third volume, parts 6, 7, and 8 comprising the fourth volume, and parts 9 and 10 comprising the fifth volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 181; 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 leading and ending flyleaves.
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- File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:104v, 106r:124v, 126r:181v, ii-r:ii-v, 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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