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Trucial Coast, tho Residency Agent and the Shaikhs of
Dubai, Sharjah and AJman were invited by the Station
Manager for light refreshments.

*C' Class services were regular during the
year. From August onwards air activity considerably
increased on tho Trucial Coast with numerous private and
commercial aircraft both on charter and delivery flights
landing at Sharjah. The following are particulars of
aircraft which passed through Sharjah and Dubai during
the years
Y/estbound. Eastbound.
Ensign
1
'C' Class flying-boats 204 206
Dakotas 20 20
Sunderlands 1 1
Training & special flights 13.

(ill) P.C.L.
There has been considerable activity on the
Trucial coast by P.C.L. parties. By the end of the year
under review the Company's geological survey party had
completed their work in Dubai, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain and
in the greater part of Sharjah and Ras al Khaimah areas.
The party also worked in Abu Dhabi territory. Triangula­
tion survey work was completed in Ras al Khaimah, Unun al
Qaiwain and Ajman. considering the frequent threats and
obstructions by individual tribesmen, the strikes of drivers
and guards and more particularly the difficult terrains on
which the party had had to work the speed with which they
had progressed in their exploration work was remarkable.
(iv) leperial panic of Persia.

1046 saw the opening of a branch of the Imperial
Bank of Persia in Dubai. L'.r. p.H. Johnson, manager of the
Imperial Bank of Persia, Shiraz (Persia), arrived at Sharjah
on the 3rd January and obtained a concession for the opening
of a branch from the Shaikh of Dubai. The agreement which
was for a period of twenty years was signed on the 6th of
January. Later, Mr. Burton of the Bahrain branch of the
Imperial Bank ‘of Persia on the 21st May and Mr. G.H. Keast,
manager of the new branch on the 3rd June, arrived at Dubai
and concluded an agreement for the lease of a building for
the bank and a plot of land for the Manager's house. The
bank opened for business on the 12th October and being the
first and only banking concern on the Trucial Coast has a
very bright future before it.
(v) On the 6th of March the s.s. "Afghanistan"
arrived at Abu Musa and about 2,000 tons of red oxide
were shipped to England. Hr. E.* Innes pocock of Messrs.
Golden Valley Ochre & Oxide (Colours) Co., Ltd., arrived
at Abu Musa on the 10th of November, 1946, and re-opened
operations on the island. He was accompanied by his wife
and two children.
(vi) During the year under review 22 ships called at
Sharjah and 26 at Dubai. Mr. \7. Lleikle, Manager of Messrs.
Gray Mackenzie & Co.. Ltd., Bahrain, paid a short visit to
his company's Dubai branch on the 11tn July and returned to
Bahrain on the 15th.
/(Vli)