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Coll 29/53 'Khorramshahr (Mohammerah): house, launch, motor car, office accommodation' [120r] (241/747)
The record is made up of 1 file (372 folios). It was created in 4 Feb 1912-9 Sep 1947. 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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5979
Telegram R No# 255 dated(ajnd received)4th December 1940
Prom Bullard, Tehran#
r>s
To Foreign,New Delhi
(repeated Bushire 87 KhoRramshah 84)
EXPRESS .
Your telegram No# 158 and 163# Anglo-Persian Oil
Company offer to erect an present site standard steel frame
building at a cost of £#1,500 including demolition and raising
ground above flood level# King considers that this would
provide adequate (though only just) accommodation for some
years.
In favour of this proposal are these considerations -
(a) Site is excellent#
\ ^
(b) If site were wanted for railway, building could be
moved or would sell for perhaps half price#
(c) Railway Department assure me that no orders for
construction of railway have been given and they do not expect
it to be built for several years (my telegram No# 241 was
based on local report that embankment had been begun)»
(d) Reliable foreign expert in Railway Department states
that in any case railway yard etc# would naturally be built
not on Karun river but on Shat-el-Arab where there is plenty
of ground and no buildings to expropriate#
A.(2)# F#S# D.3#F# U#S#F# & U#S#Gr#
GC
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The file concerns the Vice-Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran].
The file contains correspondence related to:
- donation of land for sixty years from Shaikh of Mohammerah to build a consulate, 1912
- provision of accommodation, office, and car for Vice-Consul, 1929
- costs of alterations and repairs, and installation of electric lights and fans to the Vice-Consulate building, 1930
- provision of motor launches for Vice-Consul, 1931 and 1937
- temporary evacuation of Vice-Consulate for fire, 1935
- lease of Vice-Consulate premises at Khorramshahr, 1936
- repairs to Vice-Consulate building damaged by 1937 floods, and lease of living quarters from Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 1938
- removal of Vice-Consul, Reginald Lewis Bazalgette, for contrasting views related to his accommodation, 1938
- proposals to rebuild the Vice-Consulate and the residential accommodation for Vice-Consul, 1939-42
- decision to purchase two houses from Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 1945
- purchase of a new motor launch, 1947.
The file is composed of correspondence between the British Vice-Consulate at Mohammerah, the British Legation at Tehran; the Viceroy; 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. ; the British Consulate at Ahwaz; the Government of India; the Office for the High Commissioner for India; the Foreign Office; and 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. .
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- 1 file (372 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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 374; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/3628
- Title
- Coll 29/53 'Khorramshahr (Mohammerah): house, launch, motor car, office accommodation'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r, back-i, back, 2v:373r
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence