‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’ [3r] (5/260)
The record is made up of 1 file (126 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1937-27 Aug 1949. 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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I NCORPORATI NG:
STEPHEN LYNCH & C9
LYNCH BROTH ERS.LTP
GRAY, MACKENZIE & C9
AND GRAY, PAUL & C9
Telegraphic Address:
"mespersV
Codes used:
t- jtley's Complete Phrase Code.
Scott'sTenth Edition.
The Standard Shipping Code.
A.B.C. 5! 1 ? Edition.
The Mesopotamia Persia Corporation.
LIMITED.
N<p V'SSS* Bahrein, 10th March, ^^37.
We take this opportunity of advising you that
the Corporation will he put into voluntary liquidation,
and that as from the 16th instant, the business will be
taken over by Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie & Co.,Ltd., with
a telegraphic address "GRAY'*.
Kindly note that the change is in the name
only , and that business will be carried on exactly as
before by Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie <1 C 0 .,Ltd.
Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie 8c Co.,Ltd., will
honour any obligation of The Mesopotamia Persia Corpn.,
Ltd.
We shall be glad if on the 16th March, 1937,
and thereafter, you will discontinue the use of our present
name in all respects.
Yours faithfully,
TM MESOPOTAMIA PERSIA Cor*
Deputy Manager,
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Correspondence, timetables and other papers relating to the activities of the shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company, in Bahrain, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and wider Middle East region. Correspondence and papers relating to other transport operators are also included in the file: Imperial Airways (ff 18-23); Nairn Transport Company (f 13).
Papers issued under a number of different company names or letterheads are stamped ‘Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd.’ These include: the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (dissolved in 1937 and replaced by Gray, Mackenzie & Company); Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company; and the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited (BISNC).
Amongst the routine correspondence (accounts, travel and transport arrangements, changes in office personnel), the file also includes:
- details, including timetables, of steamer services operated in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and wider region by Gray, Mackenzie & Company, BISNC, Peninsular and Oriental (P&O);
- a photographic postcard of the BISNC vessel Dwarka (f 57);
- a brochure for the new BISNC vessels Dumra and Dwarka (f 73), with photographs of the vessel’s first- and second-class facilities;
- baggage labels, issued in May 1948 by BISNC to employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (f 77-78).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (126 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 116-127) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-61; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- ‘File 16/50 Correspondence with Messrs Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.’
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- 3r:3v
- Author
- Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited
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