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Coll 5/8 ‘Persia: Development of Commercial Aviation — Junkers Air Service’ [109r] (217/571)
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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Section (h) of the same article :—
The use by the company throughout the period of the concession of a
number of large aeroplanes with three engines and the use, if necessary, of
one such machine immediately after the sanction and granting of this
concession.
The Government had in mind to ensure that while others reaped the
advantages of the contract, Persia should also benefit through an arrangement by
which she should eventually be able to count on a number of trained Persian
pilots and air mechanics. They wished to bring about the establishment of an
aviation school, the training of two Persian students at a time in the various
branches of the company and the formation of an aviation company with at least
half of the shares held by Persians. None of these obligations, though legally
binding on the company, have been put into effect, and it is the company which is
responsible for the fact that advantages which should have accrued five years ago
to Persia still remain in abeyance. One wonders whether it is really expedient
that the concession should be renewed with a company which regards with total
indifference the interests of the Government which granted it. From the legal
point of view the answer is in the negative, unless indeed the Minister of Posts
and Telegraphs, who enjoys a merited reputation as a competent official and an
energetic supporter of Persian interests, is fully satisfied that the company will
turn over a new leaf and will henceforth fulfil scrupulously its obligations and
safeguard Persian interests. Confident as we are that the present Government
never adopts an obstructive attitude towards any measure conducive to the public
welfare, we cannot but attribute the indifference displayed towards these
unfulfilled obligations to the company and not to the Government, and we
therefore repeat that unless the interests in question are safeguarded, the
concession should not be renewed to Junkers.
We consider that it is in the interests of our country that at the present
stage when the contract has still five months to run, this hint should be given to
the Government, in order that when the time comes to consider the renewal more
attention may be paid to the moral and material interests of the Persian people.
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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)
- Arrangement
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
- 108v:109v
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