'File 12/1 III Cable and Wireless Ltd'

Content

The file concerns the operations of Cable and Wireless Limited at Muscat.

The papers include: draft of a Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Licence between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Cable and Wireless Limited; draft and agreed versions of the Muscat-Muttrah Telephone Licence between the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Cable and Wireless Limited; related correspondence, including letters from the Overseas Telecommunications Department of the General Post Office, London, summarising the position which the negotiations over the Company's concession had reached; correspondence concerning a site for the Company's Exchange, including a plan of the Muscat Consulate Compound and Adjacent Buildings, 1948 (folio 77), showing the Company's proposals to take over and extend an existing building there; and correspondence between the Ministry of Works, Middle East, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Muscat, and the Company, concerning the lease of buildings to the Company from the British Government.

Extent and format

1 file (76 folios)

It is grouped into

'MUSCAT. CONSULATE COMPOUND AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS.'

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/6/405, f 77

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 78; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/6/405

Former external reference(s)

Subject files: File 12/1/3

History of this record

Date(s)

16 Jan 1950-25 Nov 1950 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Telecommunications

People & organisations

Cable and Wireless Ltd

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