'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession'

Title:

'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession'

Contributor:

D'Arcy Exploration Company Limited (correspondent)
British Legation, Tehran (correspondent)

Date:

1932/1933

Description:

The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, the Political Resident at Bushire and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the cancellation, on 27 Nov 1932, of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession, because APOC was not acting in the interest of Persia in reducing the oil production in 1932. The British Government considered escalating the breach of the concession to the International Court of Justice considering it a dispute between the Persian Government and the British Government. The volume contains: APOC's report on the 'Situation in Persia' (folios 87-92) and letter from the Deputy Chairman of APOC to the Company's Stakeholders to inform them (folios 93-107). The volume also includes copies of articles from The Timesand copies of printed documents related to the dispute, including the agreement with D'Arcy (folios 219-231).1 volume (221 folios)The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 237-239). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.The foliation is in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, then 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G and 1H; 2-27; 28-40 are skipped or omitted; 41-124; 125-135 are skipped or omitted; 136-146; 147-155 are skipped or omitted; 156-185; 186 and 187 are skipped or omitted; 188-201; 202 and 202A and then it carries on until 245, which is the last number given on the last folio of the volume. Between 93 and 107 the folios are paginated.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

D'Arcy Concession, 1901

Geographic region:

Persia

Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

Rights:

Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence
Public Domain
Non-commercial use only
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000261_ar
81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000261_en
IOR/R/15/1/635

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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