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Coll 7/35 'Afghanistan: sale of ammunition to the Afghan government by Imperial Chemical Industries and others' [123r] (245/287)
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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Please see P.Z.2892/36 regarding Imperial Chemical
Industries'• desire to sell ammunition to the Afghan
Government.
The Foreign Office have seen Mr. Thornhill of I.C.I.
and he has confirmed by letter that I.C.I. could sell
ammunition at a lower price than the Government of India's
offer. They would also be prepared to consider the questicr
of credit. The Foreign Office have referred to us
drafts to Colonel Fraser-Tytler and Mr. Thornhill.
Mr. Collier refused in his interview with Mr.
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Thornhill^to pass on an offer on behalf of I.C.I. unless
and until the Afghans object to the Government of India's
terms. I understand Mr. Collier's view to be that such
action might diminish the political value of the
Government of India's offer. There is, however, the
possibility of I.C.I. putting in an offer direct to the
Afghans (they have already written to the Afghan Legation
to invite Shah Mahmud to visit their cartridge
factory
An East India Company trading post.
at Birmingham^cuAi Ehere seems no objection to this
course. Mr. Collier tells me that this possibility was
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not discussed at the interview, &*** he sees no objection
to a hint being included in the letter to Mr. Thornhill
that I.C.I. may tender direct. As a matter of fact they
will probably prefer to rely on the Government of India
agreeing, in the event of the Afghans accepting the
Government of India's offer, to allow I.C.I. to take over
their obligations under that offer.
A re-wording of paragraph 4 of the Foreign Office
draft to Kabul is suggested, and a draft to the
Government of India is added.
Military Secretary,
For any observations.
3939 5000 7/35
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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)
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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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- 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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