46 items (enclosure with covering letter from N Masters, Director, Whitehall Petroleum...

MFQ 1/841

1922

46 items (enclosure with covering letter from N Masters, Director, Whitehall Petroleum Corporation, to the Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 5 September 1922) extracted from CO 730/35 (folios 213-258). 23 applications (the odd-numbered items) from the Whitehall Petroleum Corporation for oil concessions in Iraq and 23 related maps (the even-numbered items) showing rivers, towns and roads. (1) Application number 18. (2) Map I, marking the area relevant to item 1. (3) Application number 19. (4) Map J, marking the area relevant to item 3. (5) Application number 20. (6) Map J, marking the area relevant to item 5. (7) Application number 21. (8) Map K, marking the area relevant to item 7. (9) Application number 22. (10) Map L, marking the area relevant to item 9. (11) Application number 2. (12) Map A, marking the area relevant to item 11. (13) Application number 23. (14) 'Mesopotamia': key map of the area between Baghdad and Mosul (Mawsil), marking the areas of maps A-L. (15) Application number 1. (16) Map A, marking the area relevant to item 15. (17) Application number 17. (18) Map I, marking the area relevant to item 17. (19) Application number 15. (20) Map H, marking the area relevant to item 19. (21) Application number 16. (22) Map H, marking the area relevant to item 21. (23) Application number 12. (24) Map E, marking the area relevant to item 23. (25) Application number 13. (26) Map F, marking the area relevant to item 25. (27) Application number 14. (28) Map G, marking the area relevant to item 27. (29) Application number 4. (30) Map A, marking the area relevant to item 29. (31) Application number 5. (32) Map B, marking the area relevant to item 31. (33) Application number 6. (34) Map B, marking the area relevant to item 33. (35) Application number 7. (36) Map B, marking the area relevant to item 35. (37) Application number 10. (38) Map C, marking the area relevant to item 37. (39) Application number 11. (40) Map D, marking the area relevant to item 39. (41) Application number 8. (42) Map C, marking the area relevant to item 41. (43) Application number 9. (44) Map C, marking the area relevant to item 43. (45) Application number 3. (46) Map A, marking the area relevant to item 45. Scales: (2, 8, 10, 18, 20, 22, 28, 38, 42, 44) 1 inch to 1 mile [1:63,360]; (4, 6, 12, 16, 26, 30, 32, 34, 36, 40) 1 inch to 2 miles [1:126,720]; (14) 1 inch to 20 miles [1:1,267,200]; (24) 1:250,000. All maps derived from: 'Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India', volume 48, by Pascoe. Inset to item 14: map of the Middle East, marking the area shown in the key map; MS additions marking the vilayet of Basra.

Portfolio 1 contains items 1-23; portfolio 2 contains items 24-46. The original order of these items was disturbed before repair or cataloguing. The original order was probably that of the application numbers: number 1 (15-16), number 2 (11-12), number 3 (45-46), number 4 (29-30), number 5 (31-32), number 6 (33-34), number 7 (35-36), number 8 (41-42), number 9 (43-44), number 10 (37-38), number 11 (39-40), number 12 (23-24), number 13 (25-26), number 14 (27-28), number 15 (19-20), number 16 (21-22), number 17 (17-18), number 18 (1-2), number 19 (3-4), number 20 (5-6), number 21 (7-8), number 22 (9-10), number 23 (13-14).

Public Record(s)

English

2 portfolio(s)

Open Document, Open Description

Topics

Archives and libraries

International

Maps and plans

Oil and gas

Middle East