Economic development p.118

FO 371/157026 1961
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Foreign Firms in Abu Dhabi

Firms actually working in Abu Dhabi.

ADMA ( BP, $ CFP)
PDTC (IPC group)
BP(EA), who have a marketing monopoly.
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(Cable and Wireless)
Decca navigation (slave station)
BBME
Gulf construction Co. (building PDTC house).
Khan Sahib Hussain.
Richardson and Westgarth (whose distillation

plant is run by al Mulla and Owaia)

Firms with agreements with the Ruler.

Gray Mackenzies (lightering monopoly).
African and Eastern
Eastern Bank
Spinneys
Costains
CAT (who have permission to start as builders

and engineers, and have a half-guaranteed
monopoly of hotel building)

Firms whose representatives have visited the Ruler
this year.

Ottoman Bank
Pencol
Kenya Cooperative Creameries
Tennants
Halcrows
Deloitte Plender Griffiths
Lessers
Design Construction Group, Kuwait
Arab Bank
al Moayyad, Bahrain
Ford International
Williams and Williams, Kuwait
John Birch
Bennis Thermoflash (who are providing

the new distillation plant).
al Omar, Kuwait (who are selling it)
Victor Hashim
Ewbanks
Austro-Kuwaiti
Kanoo
Darwish
Ali bin Ali
(and other firms from Bahrain, Doha

and Kuwait, one of whom have
been successful

* Did not attempt to do serious business.

+ Rebuffed.

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