‘File 28/46-I Miscellaneous war requirements’

Name: ‘File 28/46-I Miscellaneous war requirements’
Author: the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta [Kolkata]

İsim	‘File 28/46-I Miscellaneous war requirements’
Yazar	the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta [Kolkata]
Basım Tarihi:	26 Nov 1942-27 Nov 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Konu	1
Tür	Belge
Dil	ara,eng
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Sayfa Sayısı	75
Kütüphane:	Katar Dijital Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	IOR/R/15/2/741
Kayıt Numarası	vdc_100000000241.0x000089
Lokasyon	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.
Tarih	26 Nov 1942-27 Nov 1944 (CE, Gregorian)
Notlar	The file comprises correspondence associated with a miscellaneous assortment of matters arising in wartime Bahrain: an enquiry from the Government of India in November 1942, for 2,600 mother of pearl shells, which are required by the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta [Kolkata], including: enquiries into the availability of the shells at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ; the nature of the ‘Sadaify’ shells required; Indian demand for mother of pearl (ff 2-11, f 29); proposals to bring criminal charges against a Bahrain trader, accused of undersupplying coral towards the construction of a jetty for the Royal Navy at Jeddah [Jiddah] Island, including statements made by the trader, and the dropping of claims after the trader withdrew his financial claims (ff 12-18, f 23, ff 30-32); correspondence dated from March 1943 relating to arrangements for Major S Hills of the Royal Engineers, to rent a house owned by Shaikh Abdullah bin Hamad [‘Abdullāh bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah] (ff 19-22, ff 24-28); correspondence dated September 1944 relating to delays in the despatch of a Government telegram, a result of human error at the Cable and Wireless office in Bahrain (ff 41-47); correspondence dated September 1944 relating to: an aeroplane accident at Muharraq, arrangements for Major Dalton of the United States Air Training Corps to meet the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, flying of the United States flag at Muharraq (ff 51-57); correspondence and witness statements relating to a drunken brawl in November 1944, involving an oil worker (ff 59-68); The file also includes: sale of Naafi (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) cigarettes to civilians (f 33); alcohol imports at the Bahrain Petroleum Company (ff 34-36); PAIFORCE (Persia and Iraq Force) telegrams concerning anti-locust operations (ff 38-39); a photograph of Shaikh Muḥammad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah in the Egyptian newspaper Bourse Egyptienne (ff 49-50); a request for mineral analysis of a rock collected at Jabal Akjdar, Oman (ff 69-70). The title on the file cover originally read ’Miscellaneous war requirements’. However, the word ‘requirements’ was struck through in blue pencil, possibly while the file was open.
Erişim Koşulları	Unrestricted
Düzenleme	The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 73-76) mirror the chronological arrangement.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)	Confidential Files: 28/46 I

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‘File 28/46-I Miscellaneous war requirements’

Yazar the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta [Kolkata]

Basım Tarihi 26 Nov 1942-27 Nov 1944 (CE, Gregorian)

Konu 1

Tür Belge

Dil ara,eng

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Sayfa Sayısı 75

Kütüphane Katar Dijital Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası IOR/R/15/2/741

Kayıt Numarası vdc_100000000241.0x000089

Lokasyon 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.

Tarih 26 Nov 1942-27 Nov 1944 (CE, Gregorian)

Notlar The file comprises correspondence associated with a miscellaneous assortment of matters arising in wartime Bahrain: an enquiry from the Government of India in November 1942, for 2,600 mother of pearl shells, which are required by the Superintendent at the Mathematical Instrument Office in Calcutta [Kolkata], including: enquiries into the availability of the shells at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ; the nature of the ‘Sadaify’ shells required; Indian demand for mother of pearl (ff 2-11, f 29); proposals to bring criminal charges against a Bahrain trader, accused of undersupplying coral towards the construction of a jetty for the Royal Navy at Jeddah [Jiddah] Island, including statements made by the trader, and the dropping of claims after the trader withdrew his financial claims (ff 12-18, f 23, ff 30-32); correspondence dated from March 1943 relating to arrangements for Major S Hills of the Royal Engineers, to rent a house owned by Shaikh Abdullah bin Hamad [‘Abdullāh bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah] (ff 19-22, ff 24-28); correspondence dated September 1944 relating to delays in the despatch of a Government telegram, a result of human error at the Cable and Wireless office in Bahrain (ff 41-47); correspondence dated September 1944 relating to: an aeroplane accident at Muharraq, arrangements for Major Dalton of the United States Air Training Corps to meet the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfah, flying of the United States flag at Muharraq (ff 51-57); correspondence and witness statements relating to a drunken brawl in November 1944, involving an oil worker (ff 59-68); The file also includes: sale of Naafi (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) cigarettes to civilians (f 33); alcohol imports at the Bahrain Petroleum Company (ff 34-36); PAIFORCE (Persia and Iraq Force) telegrams concerning anti-locust operations (ff 38-39); a photograph of Shaikh Muḥammad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah in the Egyptian newspaper Bourse Egyptienne (ff 49-50); a request for mineral analysis of a rock collected at Jabal Akjdar, Oman (ff 69-70). The title on the file cover originally read ’Miscellaneous war requirements’. However, the word ‘requirements’ was struck through in blue pencil, possibly while the file was open.

Erişim Koşulları Unrestricted

Düzenleme The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 73-76) mirror the chronological arrangement.

Eski Harici Referans(lar) Confidential Files: 28/46 I