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Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’ [‎9r] (17/380)

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The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1934-21 Mar 1947. 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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Copy 24 th May, 1943*
Dear Excellency,
My colleagues and I have given^the mosi; careful
^“hought to your letter'of the 31st December
informing me of the instructions received by you from the
Imperial Iranian Government,
The Company agreed in the early part of the
present war to make extra payments over the sums due under
the terms of the Concession, without any prejudice whatever
to the Articles thereof, the Company having always carried
out faithfully all its Concessional obligations. This
was done solely with a view to giving assistance to the
Imperial Government in the exceptional circumstances
created by the war in Europe and the arrangement included
a stipulation that its duration should be limited to the
period up to the end of 1941 and that payments made were
outwith the Concession and would not affect its terms or
create a precedent,
• •
My Company also undertook to confer with a view
to reaching an arrangement agreeable to both parties in
regard to the period after 1941 and is moreover most anxious
to foster the spirit of goodwill towards Iran where we have
worked for so many years and will work for many years to
come under the Concession Agreement of 1933* Therefore,
as an arrangement quite apart from the Concession, I am
glad to be able to inform Your Excellency that the Board
has authorised me to agree that with effect from the
1st January 1942 the Company will make up the sums due on
account of royalty tonnage, dividend participation,
taxation and gold premium to Pour Million Pounds Sterling
(£4*000,000) in total in respect of each year ending
31st December in which the aggregate sum payable under
Articles 10 and 11 of the Concession should not reach this
figure, up to and including the year in which hostilities
between the United Kingdom and both Germany and Italy
/cease
His Excellency
P. Noury Esfandiary,
Delegate of the Imperial Government,
Britannic House,
Finsbury Circus,
LONDON, E.C.2.

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Correspondence concerning diplomatic relations between the British and Persian Governments over the concession and operations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (from 1935, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited), referred to as APOC hereafter. The file includes: correspondence dated 1933 to 1935 from the British Consul at Kermanshah, reporting progress of the construction of APOC’s oil refining facilities at Kermanshah; correspondence dated 1939 and 1940 reporting on the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] and his Government’s efforts to renegotiate the terms of the APOC concession, in light of the heightened strategic importance of APOC’s oil production to Britain during wartime conditions; correspondence dated 1941 reporting on wartime developments, the likelihood of German occupation of Iran, and the threat to APOC oil production in the country. The file also includes: two bound and printed copies of the APOC Concession 1933-1993, printed in French and English, and accompanied by a fold-out map of the concession area (ff 127-149, ff 150-172); an illustrated brochure, published by APOC in 1924 to commemorate the company’s stand at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 (ff 109-126).

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1 file (187 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 188; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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