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Coll 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’ [51r] (101/571)
The record is made up of 1 file (284 folios). It was created in 4 Jul 1924-21 Sep 1938. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the 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. .
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time now it nay be a Government owned company) • Or do we
make an approach direct as an Iraqi Company i*e., do I oome up
officially and in person? Or can the British legation help in
any way?
I gather from Sir Francis who is on this ship that
the Persian Government is not over friendly at the moment in
which oase it will I suppose be better not to approach through
the British legation.
Otherwise we want very much - in fact we are counting
ion getting the Foreign Offioo hag contract i.e. t carrying the
courier and bag once a fortnight on the same terms as Junkers*
So I do hope you will hold this contract up till we are in the
field, m shall need every single bit of support.
Our idea is to standardise £16 single fare Baghdad -
Tehran plus a charge for baggage in excess of 15 kgs and we
have already agreed with the Iraq Government a charge of 8/4d
per kg for mail, in this connexion we should want to get the
Persian Mail but how to get payment? What do you think of
getting it through the Iraq Government.
Our intention is to come up on Wednesdays returning
on Thursdays so as to feed into Imperial Airways* But we also
want to connect with the Simplon Orient at Aleppo, and while we
have only one machine may have to choose another day.
The single aircraft operation is experimental pending
the completion of negotiations with the Iraq Government and a
great deal in order to get them over the various fences. I
hope to have at least two in operation before the end of March.
I also want the Anglo-persian Oil Company to charter
one instead of the Avro 10 which is unsuitable for their Fields’
aerodromes
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The file contains correspondence and related papers concerning the development of civil aviation in Persia (referred to as Iran from 1935), its primary focus being the activities of the German company Junkers. The file covers negotiations surrounding the grant of a five year concession to Junkers in 1927 for the provision of internal air services within Persia, and the failed negotiations surrounding an attempt by the Company to renew the agreement in 1932. It therefore also contains correspondence about the subsequent withdrawal of Junkers from Persia, and subsequent attempts by Luft Hansa to replace Junkers. Correspondence in the file also discusses a proposal from Imperial Airways to establish a Trans-Persian route between the United Kingdom (UK) and India; this is mainly related to whether the experience of Junkers should be allowed to discourage this proposal.
To a lesser extent the file also covers the establishment of air mail and passenger services between Tehran and Baghdad; this ranges from a initial proposal from Airworks Limited in 1932 to the eventual establishment of a service by Iranian State Airways in 1938. Also briefly discussed is a proposal — briefly advanced by the North West Indian Trading Company — from Captain Louis Murphy in 1926 for the establishment of an air service between Duzdap [Zahedan] and Meshed [Mashhad]: see folios 155-9.
The French content includes a draft contract between the Government of Persia and Junkers dated June 1925 (see folios 205-16), a copy of the final contract (see folios 139v-143) dated 9 February 1926, and a copy of a notice on changes to Junkers' Persian air services dated 17 October 1931. Occasional extracts can also be found in French.
The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran, officials of the Air Ministry, and officials of the Foreign Office. The correspondence is periodically forwarded to the Under-Secretary of State for India by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (284 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 285; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/1953
- Title
- Coll 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’
- Pages
- 50r:52v, 63r:64v
- Author
- Muntz, Frederick Alan Irving
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