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Coll 7/35 'Afghanistan: sale of ammunition to the Afghan government by Imperial Chemical Industries and others' [39r] (77/287)
The record is made up of 1 file (142 folios). It was created in 22 Apr 1936-25 Jan 1941. 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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Dear collier.
, f Brltlab Delation 9 r.abul*
"1 QO f \u,ui iimoisbibQr* 19^#
I sJ t—
1939
v.ouXa you KinUly refer u> /our les»^r daoe^i Uie ?t»h
Xoveutoer, lD 3 o (K MO/Uj/V?) to -r, fhomhill of Imperial Cjieidoal
Indus tries Lira! ted, a copy of widen was sent to me witli your
endorsement of the bth Jiuveidier ?
V,e recKOii that between tne years Ibbu to lb37 tlie Ar^itun
Govem^ient have bought or received 42^ million rounds of *303
munition* In add tion triey nave ordered from C^ecnoslovaAia
11 million rounds 7 *D 2 mm* ;imuH j-yrms ^monition for theii’ ii*jnt
machine a^is* I understaiiu that thie ammuAition cannot be used
in *303 rifles*
3 ixice lb 36 however, wi*n they mde tneir request for lo
million rounds tamall Arms ^^fiunition they have received *?U ioiHlon
rounds *303 from us, and have received or will shortly receive 11
million rounaa 7 #b 2 , that is a total oi 13^ million rounds i:>iunil
Arms .A^-iunition*
4 # Km believe that a certain amount of the ammunition
acquired between 193u and 1934 is obsolete, particularly the con-
siipimexits of 13 million bou^at from plemiri^ in 1931 ana 1932, but
even so, expend!tui^e of as^nunltlon ie very small in tnis country,
and it seetas unlikely that they will wiah to siake furuier purchases
in Hie near* future* I will however make a note to sound the
I rricie vjniater on the subject on some convenient occasion. You
I
will realise of course, and in fact Mr* Thornhill adt^its as much,
that the lmj>erial Cheidlcal industriee* prices are very high com
pared with those of czscnoslovaxia, and I rather doubt the AftJ&att
Government being willing to afford Imperial ciiexdLcal incus tries
ammunition unless the Czech stuff ia nopelessly unsatisfactory*
5 , I am sending a copy of this lettex' to Peel and itetcalfe*
Collier Require, C*h*G*,
^*oreign Office,
London •
Yours ever,
Sd/- \v* K. prase r- Ty tie r <
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Correspondence regarding contracts to supply the Afghan Government with ammunition. The Government of India had agreed to supply 2.5 million rounds a year for six years, and the file primarily concerns negotiations between the Afghan Government and Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, over the supply of further ammunition.
The majority of the correspondence is between Imperial Chemical Industries Limited and the Foreign Office, regarding the quantities of ammunition to be supplied, and price and payment options. The file also contains communications received by 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. from the British Legation in Kabul (William Kerr Fraser-Tytler), reporting on meetings with the Afghan Prime Minister and War Minister, and commenting on the Afghan Government's arms-supply arrangements and negotiations with arms firms in Belgium and Czechoslovakia.
The file also contains a small amount of correspondence (dated 1941) between 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 External Affairs Department, and the Department of Overseas Trade, regarding a request made by the firm International Traders of Karachi for permission to import British radios into India and Afghanistan.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).
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- 1 file (142 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 143; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 7/35 'Afghanistan: sale of ammunition to the Afghan government by Imperial Chemical Industries and others'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:11v, 13r:14v, 17r:20v, 23r:23v, 26r:31v, 33r:41v, 45r:46v, 48r:54v, 57r:57v, 60r:61v, 63r:72v, 75r:76v, 78r:88v, 90r:95v, 97r:131v, 133r:136v, 139r:140v, 142r:143v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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