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Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’ [13ar] (25/380)
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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Colleagues and I have given the m)f-t careful
thought to your letter of the 31st Deceriber 1942 informing
rae of the instructions received by you from the Imperial
Iranian Government.
I may perhaps remind you that the arrangement
referred to in your letter, which was insisted upon by the
Government of the ex Shah, was the result of events and
circumstances entirely beyond the Company’s control, the
Company having faithfully carried out all its concessional
obligations. Consequently the arrangement made was only
concluded with a sense of grave disquiet and the text
included a stipulation, inserted at the instance of the
Company, that its duration should be limited to a period
up to the end of 1941 and that the payments made were
out with the Concession and would not affect its terms
or create a precedent.
nevertheless my Company is 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; and further, I
would like to assure your Excellency that my Colleagues
and I fully appreciate the magnitude of the problems which
confront the Imperial Government as well as the Company
in the face of a i?orld War.
I am therefore glad to be able to inform Your
Excellency that, as an arrangement quite apart from the
Concession, 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 ,OOj) in total in respect of each
year ending 31st December up to and including the year in
including the year in which the cessation of hostilities
between the United Nations and Germany occurs
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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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- Title
- Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 9r:9v, 11r:12v, 13ar:13av, 13r:88v, 90r:108v, 173r:188v, 188v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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