Coll 35/32 'Wireless stations in the Persian Gulf: allocation of call signs and registration' [38r] (75/452)
The record is made up of 1 file (222 folios). It was created in 4 Nov 1930-21 May 1938. 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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3./
Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department.
To
The Director of Telecommunications,
General Post Office,
London,
No«7ir-4371 . dated New Delhi , the 25th January 1937 .
Sir,
I am directed to acknowledge with thanks the receipt
of information regarding wireless stations of the Koweit Oil
Company Limited at Koweit an d Bahrah forwarded with your
letter No. 44250/36 dated the 30th December 1936, and to say
that this Department has no definite information as regards
the terms on which the Company has been permitted to erect
and operate these stations. I am therefore to refer to
the correspondence ending with 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.
letter
NO.E.& 0. 8026/36 dated the 8th December, 1936, and to request
that, if His Majesty 1 s Postmaster-General has no objection,
full details together with a copy of any specific authority
which may have been issued may kindly be forwarded for
the information of this Department.
2. In this connection I am to refer also to the wireless
stations at Gwadar, Sharjah, Bahrein and Bushire. It is
understood that the stations at Gwadar and Sharjah are operated
by Messrs. Imperial Airways Limited while those at Bahrein and
Bushire are operated by Messrs. Cable and Wireless Limited, the
latter stations having been taken over by the Company with the
assets of the late Indo European Telegraph Department. Definite
information oi the terms on which these Companies have been
permitted to operate these stations is also not available in this
Department and, before addressing the Companies, I am to enquire
whether the British Post Office have issued any formal authority
or could supply any information on this subject.
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The file concerns allocation of call signs and registration for the wireless telegraph stations in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The file contains:
- registration and call sign for wireless station at Gwadur, 1932
- registration and call sign for wireless station at Sharjah, 1933-37
- blueprint showing wireless lines between Charbar [Chābahār] and Karachi, titled 'Main Lines. Mekran Sub-Division' (f 144)
- allocation of call signs at Bahrain and Aden wireless stations, 1936.
The file contains correspondence between 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. , the Foreign Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry, Imperial Airways, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the ruler of Sharjah, Shaikh Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī One of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates; also used to refer to a confederation of seafaring Arabs led by the Qāsimī tribe from Ras al Khaima. , Cable and Wireless Limited, and the General Post Office.
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- 1 file (222 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 (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 224; 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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- Coll 35/32 'Wireless stations in the Persian Gulf: allocation of call signs and registration'
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- front, front-i, 2r:81r, 81ar, 81v:102v, 105r:113v, 115r:151r, 151ar, 151v:210r, 210ar, 210v:211v, 212ar, 212r:223v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence