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Coll 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’ [248r] (495/571)
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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(tS ^273/524/34 )
! * ^ _ ' 20th March, 1925
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Bir,
I harm thm honour to inform you with reference to
my t«legraiu Io*6l? of to«-day*8 dato, that L»jraroXim«(k«
the representative in Tehran of the Junkers Coiapany
called on me this morning: ho did so because he had
recently heard that this Legation had been entrusted
with the care of Austrian interests in Persia, and
therefore felt it his duty as an Austrian eitiaen to
make my acquaintance*
The conversation which ensued was naturally
concerned with the question of aviation in Persia and
several raatier® came to light of interest and importance,
which I beg leave to bring to your notice.
(1) The Junker© Company are most desirous to do
nothing in this country which we might regard a© detrimental
to British interests, or to collide in any way with those
interests. L„J&rolimek made it quite clear to me that it
would suffice for me to .wake our wishes known in any
regard for them to secure immediate respect, and he assured
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me categorically that there was no question whatever of
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hi® Company seeking a monopoly of civil aviation in Persia.
( } The Junkers Company, which is a purely German
one, would be only too glad to work in h&roiony with any
British Company desirous of establishing air routes over
Persian
The Might Honourable
Austen Chamberlain, k.k.,
Foreign Office
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (284 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 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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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1953
- Title
- Coll 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’
- Pages
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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