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Coll 5/11 ‘Air Route to India: Arab Coast Route – Emergency Landing Ground at Qatar’ [66r] (131/345)
The record is made up of 1 file (171 folios). It was created in 30 May 1932-16 Jul 1934. 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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DdiFT OF KUWAIT CONCESSION.
xxx x
Article 5*
(A) For the purposes of its operations hereunder
.the Company shall have the right without hindrance to construct
aiiu to operate power stations, rofin 6 ries 3 t pipelines and storage
tanks^ facilities for water supply including horing for water,
telegraph telephone and wireless installations, roads, railways,
tramways, buildings, ports, harbours, harbour works, wharves and
jetties, oil and coaling stations, with such lighting as may be
requisite and any other facilities or works v/hich tne Company may
consider necessary, and for such purposes to use free of all payments
to the Government any stone, sand, gravel, gypsum, clay or water
which may be available anu may be required for its operations
hereunder, provided always that the water supply of the local
inhabitants ana nomad population who may be dependent on the same
is not endangered. The Company shall at its discretion but in
consultation with the Government select the position of any such
works. The Company may likewise utilise without hindrance all such
means of transportation by land air and water communication or
operation as may be necessary for the effective conduct of its
operations hereunder.
(B) The Company shall under normal conditions accept and
transmit free of charge on its wireless end telegraph installations
such Government messages as will not interfere with the Company T s
business, ana in tines of national emergency the Government shall
have full use free of charge of the Company’s wireless and telegraph
installations and railways for governmental purposes.
(C) The Government’s ships shall have the right to use
harbours utilised or constructed by the Company, provided that such
use in no way hampers the Company or interferes in any way with
the safety of its operations of v/hich the Company shall be the
sole judges. Any wharves of appurtenances constructed by the
Company shall be for its exclusive use.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to two topics. The first topic is an attempt by the British Government to obtain permission for an emergency landing ground in Qatar during 1932. The second topic relates to the air facilities needed by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in Qatar, if an offer of British protection is to be made to the Shaikh of Qatar in return for an oil concession for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). In respect of this second topic, the file also contains material regarding a reconnaissance undertaken by the Royal Air Force over Qatar on the 9 May 1934 to identify suitable sites for such facilities. It includes a copy of a report on the reconnaissance – submitted by Bomber Squadron No 84, Shaibah, Iraq – on folios 27-32, along with a tracing of Qatar (folio 7) and a number of aerial photographs (folios 8-22) referenced in the report.
A draft copy of the Qatar Oil Concession can be found on folios 93-101, and notes of amendments proposed by the British Government can be found on folios 80-89. In addition, a number of 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. memoranda have also been included towards the back of the file: El Qatar, 1908-16 (folio 167), The Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Chiefs, 1908-28 (folios 168-71), and a Précis of the Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (folios 164-67).
The main correspondents are as follows: 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. (Trenchard Craven William Fowle), the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, officials of the Air Ministry, and 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 file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (171 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 173; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/12/1956
- Title
- Coll 5/11 ‘Air Route to India: Arab Coast Route – Emergency Landing Ground at Qatar’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 23r:92v, 102r:172v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence