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Coll 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’ [106r] (211/571)
The record is made up of 1 file (284 folios). It was created in 4 Jul 1924-21 Sep 1938. It was written in English and French. 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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The Afghan Government approve of an air service in principle
hut up to the present are not prepared to grant Junkers
Company the minimum guarantee required* The Company are
purposely not asking for a subsidy hut require a guarantee
of a minimum income until the service is well established#
Should the Afghan Government he unable to grant a monetary
guarantee, the Company is prepared to take, in lieu, some
form of concession such as larah skins which they can sub-let
to a German firm in Kabul* Mr* Weil points out th. t
the ; fgh&n Government require a regular air service and stipulates
that a thoroughly efficient workshop for complete overhaul
of aircraft must be established In Kabul, but are not ready
to contribute anytuing towards the heavy expenses involved*
Mr* 1 ell, accompanied by Mr* Thomas Brown, proposes to
fly to Kabul from Tehran in June with the hope of
concluding a satisfactory agreement.
5. Mr* ,eil has just returned from a visit to Baghdad.
His object was to study local conditions and to approach
the authorities on the question of Junkers Company
establishing an air service from Baghdad to Damascus (Aleppo-
Haifa) and Baghdad to the Hedju:s.
lie had interview with King Pel sal and the High
Commissioner to whom he only mentioned the question of the
Baghdad - Damascus line. He considered it unsound, on
political grounds, to mention the Hejaz line as he visualises
an Arab state, or states, centred on Baghdad - Damascus -
Mecca, linked by Junkers air service, and he was uncertain
whether this vision would appeal to the Iraq authorities.
During his stay in Baghdad Mr* Weil made preliminary
arrangements for establishing a local company to be called the
Iraq Transport Company. Junkers take 51k of the shares,
the public 25D, and the remainder will be offered to the
British. With an eye to the future it is being arranged
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The file contains correspondence and related papers concerning the development of civil aviation in Persia (referred to as Iran from 1935), its primary focus being the activities of the German company Junkers. The file covers negotiations surrounding the grant of a five year concession to Junkers in 1927 for the provision of internal air services within Persia, and the failed negotiations surrounding an attempt by the Company to renew the agreement in 1932. It therefore also contains correspondence about the subsequent withdrawal of Junkers from Persia, and subsequent attempts by Luft Hansa to replace Junkers. Correspondence in the file also discusses a proposal from Imperial Airways to establish a Trans-Persian route between the United Kingdom (UK) and India; this is mainly related to whether the experience of Junkers should be allowed to discourage this proposal.
To a lesser extent the file also covers the establishment of air mail and passenger services between Tehran and Baghdad; this ranges from a initial proposal from Airworks Limited in 1932 to the eventual establishment of a service by Iranian State Airways in 1938. Also briefly discussed is a proposal — briefly advanced by the North West Indian Trading Company — from Captain Louis Murphy in 1926 for the establishment of an air service between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashhad]: see folios 155-9.
The French content includes a draft contract between the Government of Persia and Junkers dated June 1925 (see folios 205-16), a copy of the final contract (see folios 139v-143) dated 9 February 1926, and a copy of a notice on changes to Junkers' Persian air services dated 17 October 1931. Occasional extracts can also be found in French.
The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran, officials of the Air Ministry, and officials of the Foreign Office. The correspondence is periodically forwarded to the Under-Secretary of State for India by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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.
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- 1 file (284 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate 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 285; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top centre 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 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’
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- front, front-i, 2r:14v, 16r:49v, 53r:62v, 65r:75v, 77r:78v, 80r:95v, 98r:108r, 110r:138v, 144r:173v, 175r:177v, 180r:187v, 194r:204v, 217r:221v, 223r:285v, back
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