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Coll 29/117 'Air conditioning of the offices and residences of officers in Persia and the Persian Gulf: including Khorramshahr and the shipping office at Abadan' [‎33v] (68/88)

The record is made up of 1 file (41 folios). It was created in 21 Apr 1945-23 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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foreign Office
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an extract of a letter from 3ir John Dashwood to the
handed to Hie '/ajesty’s Consul, Khorramghahr during
stay in Khorramshahr* -
eir-conditioned and very well found, all at the Jompany’a expense
and it i* s curious anoLaly that who control the Company,
cannot do as much for their 6m people. T am more than ever convinced
Copy of D.O. letter No.l94_dat@cLth§ 23rd June 1942. .
Jepres
Iddle
Representative ef India
Fiddle last Tar Council
Ho.194 June 23, 1942. *
You will-remember that when you were in the Government of
India you informed us that they would- consider favourably applications
for air conditioning in the Gulfbut that later while admitting the
; urgency of our needs, they expressed themselves as unable to proceed
with the matter owing to the urgent, need for restricting dollar
1 - expenditure. w me
2. * Since then a number of person? have inf ore: ed/that the*
1 ’“Government of India have greatly extended the air conditioning already
i installed in Delhi and that a large number , of units have been added
in certain big houses there. If this faet is'a fact, I feel sure^that
| the C-ovemrnant of India would never wish to deny the Gulf a.privilege
accorded elsewhere, and I would be grateful if you would raise the
matter again with them now that it has apparently been reopened. You
will probably have heard that the Jedda Legation is.being air conditioned.
I am. sending a copy* of * this* letter to Teigjitman.
Cgd C*0.?BICR
"he Hon’ble
Lieut-Colonel Y.R.Hay, C.I.C.,
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. , Persian C-ulf.
Copy to tT . I'eightman, Cso., C.I.C.,
external If fairs Department, He*, Delhi
under i’o. 195 of June ^5. 1942*
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Copy of D.C. letter No. 1343-A/42, dated the 27th/2Sth August 1942
a external affairs Department, New Delhi to Lt. Colonel Hay, Politic-
from
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
/ill you please refer to your D.C. letter No»^88-13/2§8 of the
9th August on the matter of eir conditioning. Prior seems to^have been
given s somewhat exaggerated report of the extent to which air condition
ing has been introduced in Delhi, for apart from the Tecretariat blowers
(which as you know work by blowing air over water and are coasec^ently
quite useless in Humidity) all'we have is a limited number of. Desert
Coolers which work enough in dry ;heGt but'tire net worth turning on
when it is damp, and'an even more limited number of real air conditioners
for particularly high officials. These last are the only ones which
would be of the faintest use in the Persian Gkilf and considering that,
India has bean scoured for them with microscopic result I fear there is
no chance of f Lading any for tie Culf Agencies. It occurs to me,how ever,
that with petroleum Concssieons Ltd. (Qatar) closing down and the
it Cii Co, and C.A.7.C.C. also reducing their operations / there
miHStbe a certain number of second-hands units for sale m your part
of^tn^Siprld* If this is so we could make one final grand assault for
money toS^iy them with, but it is not much use our starting in on this
until knW.that there are some units to be had. Could you make
enquiries, ^rifiVont committing yourself in any way, g^om tne oix companies
and if there buy yoinF~ then let us have complete pro^osaxs
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The file concerns the provision of air-conditioning equipment in the buildings of the Agencies in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The file contains correspondence between 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 Foreign Office, the British Consulate at Khorramshahr, the British Embassy at Tehran, and the Secretary of State for India.

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1 file (41 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 43; 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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