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Coll 5/83 ‘Re-Fuelling facilities for R.A.F and USATC at Bahrain’ [‎128r] (255/429)

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The record is made up of 1 file (213 folios). It was created in 14 Jan 1944-10 Oct 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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12th June, 1%4.
You vdll by this time have had a copy of our telegram Sec.X
314 of 10th June about the Bahrein Petrol Tanks. This is the best
answer I can give to your letter of 6th June, and to Berthoud*s letter
of 2nd June.
I should like, however, to go over the sequence of events
in outline, in view of the surprise which both Berthoud and yourself
have felt over the action by idr Headquarters in asking BAPCO H to act
as their agents for the maintenance of P.A.P. tank installations at
Miharraq and for the delivery of aviation spirit therefrom into TL A. p.
refuellers." _
7/e here have examined the telegrams afresh, and the notes of
oui discussions, and we think that Air Headquarters have not really
acted contrary to instructions. Indeed these particular points were
nee dealt with in the instructions. You will remember how at first we
were advised that we had no case legally and that the Bahrein- Gonpary
could make good their claim to run the entire business. At that
stage we did our best r to safeguard the position by the action detailed
in our telegram of 13th H ardh, Sec. X. 757. In brief, the land would be
leased by us and the tanks would be our property. As a matter of
expediency, however, we would ask the Buhrein Gompary to instal the
tanks as our agents for the works. In actual fact the B.A.F.
installed the tanks themselves.
I do not remember whether at that stage we discussed
maintenance oi tanks and the re-fuelling of the individual aircraft. I
don f t think we did. Anyhow it came to our knowledge within a few days
that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Conpany were carrying out the re-fuelling of
aircraft at Bahrein on behalf of the H. A. F. , using their own re
fuelling vehicles and personnel. By this was meant the drawing of X
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The file contains papers concerning refuelling arrangements for the Royal Air Force (RAF), the United States Army Transport Command (USATC), and the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), during the Second World War (1939-1945) and into the post-war period. In particular, the distribution of contracts for refuelling services between the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). It therefore covers developments at the Manama Sea Plane Anchorage and the Muharraq Aerodrome. A great deal of correspondence in the file focuses on legal discussion over the extent of BAPCO's monopoly over the erection of bulk fuel storage tanks in Bahrain, and whether this overrules the right of the British Government to provide refuelling facilities at aerodromes granted under the Bahrain Civil Aviation Agreement.

A sketch map showing a proposed oil pipeline from Sitra Island to the landing ground on Murharraq Island can be found on folio 59.

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. (Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior and Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), officials of the Air Ministry, 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. (Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold, and Roland Tennyson Peel), officials of the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Eric Alfred Berthoud, Keith Lievesley Stock, and W D Mansell-Davis), and local RAF authorities.

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 (213 folios)
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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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 214; 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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