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FO 371/185371

Civil development programme, 1966

This file concerns the civil development programme in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.
FO 464/17

Arabia: miscellaneous papers, 1962-1968, 1962 Jan 01 - 1968 Dec 31

This file contains Orders in Council relating to Arabia and the Gulf from 1962-1967. In particular it relates to: Muscat, Qatar, Aden, the Trucial States and Bahrain. These orders cover topics including: Amendments of orders, transfers of jurisdiction, airports, aviation, pharmaceutical regulations, customs duties, finance, commerce, ports, traffic, currency, immigration, doctors, alcohol, drugs, pesticides, the Trucial Oman Scouts, labour, police, patents, leasing of land, prisons, criminal procedure, explosives and contract law.

FCO 8/5736

Defence visits from the UK to Saudi Arabia, 1984 Jan 01 - 1984 Dec 31

This file concerns defence visits from the UK to Saudi Arabia.
FCO 8/4291

Ministerial visits from the UK to the Middle East: general, 1982 Jan 01 - 1982 Dec 31

This file concerns UK ministerial visits and the exploration of commercial opportunities in the Gulf.
FO 1016/835

Trucial States: fishing industry, 1965 Jan 01 - 1965 Dec 31

This file contains correspondence relating to: Visit by Group Captain M M A Cheema of the Associated Fisheries Corporation Karachi to Dubai and Bahrain to establish a fishing industry at the former as a joint venture with local interests; and the establishment by Cheema of the Arabian Sea Transport and Fisheries Corporation Visit of the Chief Fisheries Officer of the Fisheries Department in Aden V T Hinds to Dubai at the invitation of the Ruler Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Hind's subsequent flights to, and consultations in Bahrain, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Muscat.
FO 371/156695

Security of merchant shipping in Persian Gulf, 1961

This file contains correspondence relating to: Paper by the Chairman of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited (BISN) E J Pakes on 'Sea Communications within the Persian Gulf and between India and the Persian Gulf' (1) Request for information on traffic in explosives and dangers to shipping in the Gulf.
FO 371/168708

Civil development: estimates and expenditure, 1963

This file relates to civil development estimates and expenditure in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. It contains: Correspondence on civil development spending for 1960-63 (11) Statement of civil development expenditure for 1962-63 and the last quarter, January to March (12) Receipts for payments to the Sultan by HMG and an explanation of one payment (13, 15-16) Development Secretary David Ogram's forecasts of expenditure for 1 August 1963 to 31 March 1964 (14, 17) Statement of expenditure during the first six months of the financial year 1963-64 (18)

FO 371/149020

Commercial relations between countries of Arabia and UK, 1960

This file relates to civil and military development in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.
FO 371/162860

Civil development. Includes 4 photographs depicting: Muscat and Oman: Consul General J F S Phillips and Sultan of Muscat touring new guest wing of Salala Palace. Dated 1962., 1962

This file relates to civil development in Muscat and Oman.
FO 371/162813

Security of merchant shipping in Persian Gulf, 1962

This file contains correspondence relating to: Recent bomb explosions in Dubai and the security concerns of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited (BISN) (3) Damage claims made following the explosion in and loss of the ship Dara in April 1961, and information about an explosion on Daressa and one of the suspects (7) Explosion in the BISN steamer Dwhova between Dubai and Muscat (8) Explosion on the Dwarka and the question of whether BISN should change the itinerary of their ships, so that no ship would call both at Dubai and Muscat on the same voyage and wheth
FO 371/179826

Ports and harbours, 1965

This file contains correspondence relating to the port of Muscat's insufficient capacity, including a brief summary of the port's history and letters from Gray Mackenzie & Company (4).