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2 items (relating to an oil concession signed between the Sheikh of Kuwait and the...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/638
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This record is about the 2 items (relating to an oil concession signed between the Sheikh of Kuwait and the... dating from 1934-1935 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/638
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1934-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (relating to an oil concession signed between the Sheikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company, Ltd, 23 December 1934) extracted from FO 371/18905. 2 copies of a map showing boundaries, islands, relief features, settlements, [roads and pipelines]. Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles. Item 1 was sent with a letter from H T Kemp of the Company to J G Laithwaite, India Office, 29 January 1935; item 2 originally accompanied the final, signed, version of the Oil Concession.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Arabic and English
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- 32.5 cm x 41 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983659/
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