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File 451/1913 Pt 2 'Koweit Water Supply' [45r] (87/154)
The record is made up of 1 item (76 folios). It was created in 1913-1918. 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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This part contains correspondence regarding the establishment of a permanent water supply in Koweit [Kuwait] on behalf of its ruler, Shaikh Mubarak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ.
On folios 9-11 the part contains a draft Memorandum of Agreement between Shaikh Mubarak and the firm Strick, Scott and Company Limited for the construction of a salt water distillation plant. The part includes an illustration (folio 43) and large blueprint (folio 44) of this distillation plant (or 'Evaporator Plant'), construction of which began in 1916.
The primary correspondents are officials of 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, the Government of India and 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. in Bushire.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/339/2
- Title
- File 451/1913 Pt 2 'Koweit Water Supply'
- Pages
- 3r:4v, 4ar:4av, 5r:42v, 44r:78v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence