New roads

FO 371/168900 1963
Description

This file contains:

  • Extract from a Saudi Arabian newsletter about '3400 Kilometres of New Road' (1)
  • Letter by D A Hamley reporting on the state of the Saudi roads development programme after a visit to Riyadh (2)
  • Correspondence relating to a request from the Saudi Minister of Communications for assistance with the recruitment of 29 engineers for the understaffed Roads Department of his ministry (3)
  • Suggestion that Michael Grehan should visit Saudi Arabia to report on what is needed to remedy the shortage of road building engineers in Saudi Arabia (4)
  • Letter from D A Hamley to Colonel R T L Rogers of Fairey Air Surveys Limited reporting on roads, sewage and drainage contracts between various companies and the Saudi Government (5)
  • Minute by D C P Gracie about the Saudi road programme, including a summary of an article in Al Bilad (6)