مجموعة ٨٣/٥ "مرافق التزود بالوقود الخاصة بسلاح الجو الملكي وفيلق النقل بالجيش الأمريكي في البحرين" [ظ‎‎٢‎١‎١] (٤٢٩/٤٢٢)

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If any of the sites ore privately ovmed do you consider that
the Bahrein Government would be prepared to acquire them by
purchase iiaaediately or obtain an option to purchase so that there
would be no difficulty in the lease negotiations if the Royal Air
Force finally decide to proceed with the present plani# I
understand that it has* been the custom in the past for the Bahrein '
Government to acquire private property for the purpose of leasing it
to the Service Departments.
5* Since the Air Liaison Officer's letter has been received I
have had a conversation with Group Captain Alexander who tells me
that it has now been decided to take the pipeline right along the
causeway and along the IWharraq sea road instead of as described
in paragraph 3 of the Air Liaison Officer's letter. The pipe
will be buried to a depth of twelve inches below the road surface
and would I understand be most unlikely to cause any* inconvenience
to the users of the causeway.
6. It is probable that if materials are available the petrol
supply line wii.1 eventually* take the form of a pipeline seventeen
miles long from the Refinery at Sitrah to the British Overseas
Airways Corporation jetty and across the causeway as described above.
This would of course be the most satisfactory arrangement as it
would do away with intermediate pimping stations and the necessity
for running heavy Tank Lorries, but, nothing definite has yet been
decided and time iaay be required both to obtain official sanction
and to discuss with the Bahrein Government the actual siting of the
pipeline, to say nothing of the time required to carry out the actual
construction. In the meantime I shall be glad, if the Bahrein v
Government will approve the laying of the pipeline as described in
my paragraph Nb.5 above.
^ I have, etc. *
(Sd.) T.Hickinbotham
Political Agent, ' Bahrein.
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