File 2794/1921 Pt 8 'Persian Gulf: oil; Bahrain: Installation of radio-telephone by Bahrain Petroleum Company'

Content

This part (IOR/L/PS/10/999/2) consists of correspondence relating to the installation of radio-telephones by the Bahrain Petroleum Company and issues raised in connection with imperial communications.

Included are the publications of the Standard Oil Company of California: Standard Oil Bulletin, June 1933 (ff 82-91); Standard Oil Bulletin, July 1930 (ff 92-101); Standard Oil Bulletin, December 1929 (ff 102-111).

Correspondents include the Committee of Imperial Defence's Imperial Communications Committee; the Chief Local Representative, Bahrein Petroleum Company; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain (Gordon Percy Loch); and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave).

Extent and format

1 item (216 folios)

It is part of

File 2794/1921 'PARTS 7, 8 & 9 BAHRAIN OIL CONCESSION, WIRELESS, TELEPHONES, AND CUSTOMS DUTIES &c.'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/999

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/999/2

Former external reference(s)

P 2794/1921 Pt 8

History of this record

Date(s)

1933-1934 (CE, Gregorian)

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