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Contains records, including management administration, accounts and publications relating to African Buyer and Trader Publications Limited and GeminiScan Limited, subsidiary companies of Gemini News Service Limited, 1962-1976.

Administrative/Biographical history: Following its successful launch in January 1967, Gemini quickly expanded and diversified its operations. In 1968, Gemini established GeminiScan, a design and publishing company, which produced educational datakits displaying complex information in an easily understandable form, and supplied graphics to accompany Gemini articles. In 1969, Gemini took control of African Buyer and Trader, and re-styled its principle publication, African Development, into a popular monthly magazine. In the 1970s, following a prolonged period of severe financial difficulty cumulating in the take over of the Service by the Guardian newspaper in 1973, Gemini was forced to sell its shares in and eventually fully separate from its subsidiary companies.
Creator: African Buyer and Trader Limited; 1962-; publisher

Records relating to GeminiScan Limited, 1967-1976, including management administration records, 1969-1976, (GEM/9/2/1); accounts, 1967-1971, (GEM/9/2/2) and datakits, 1969-1971, (GEM/9/2/3).

Contains records relating to the management of GeminiScan Limited, including a file of general administration, 1969-1976, (GEM/9/2/1/1).

General management administration file for GeminiScan Limited, 11 November 1969 - 3 February 1976.

Includes: minutes of the meetings of the board of GeminiScan held on 11 November 1969 and 27 July 1971; company profiles, 1969; datakit press releases, 1969; memorandums examining the potential of GeminiScan producing 'Eurocop' as a daily cartoon strip for The Sun newspaper, 4-7 October 1971; requests for datakits, 1972; a report, by Labour MP Guy Barnett, concerning proposals for the production of datakits on current affairs topics, 1972; draft terms on which GeminiScan will supply Gemini News Service Limited with graphics, 4 June 1973; memorandum concerning the possibility of producing a Commonwealth datakit, nd; a letter from Cliff Hopkinson, artist and director of GeminiScan, to Oliver Carruthers, director of GeminiScan, 1974; correspondence between Oliver Carruthers and Derek Ingram (Gemini editor), concerning the charges and problems with the production and supply of graphics to Gemini News Service, 1975-1976 and a promotional leaflet by WHS Distributors and GeminiScan for Gemini books and kits, nd.

GeminiScan Limited datakits, 1969-1970, including: 'Touch Down on the Moon', 1969; (GEM/9/2/3/1); 'Apollo Mission to the Moon', nd, c1969, (GEM/9/2/3/2) and 'Astrology Made Easy', 1970, (GEM/9/2/3/3).

GeminiScan datakits aimed to 'impart knowledge pleasurably and give a fully comprehensive picture' of subjects and events. Datakits contained decoratively illustrated cardboard cut-outs, transparencies and information sheets.

Apollo Mission to the Moon pilot datakit produced by GeminiScan Limited, nd, [c1969].

The datakit contains imitation: lunar mission flight plan; inside the spacesuits diagram; cardboard spacecraft; touchdown chart; photographs of the Moon; orders for exploration on the Moon; press briefing on lunar conditions, message from the Whitehouse and a list of astronauts jargon.

Two copies of the Touchdown on the Moon datakit produced by GeminiScan Limited, 1969.

The datakits contain imitation: personal order books; instructions for the Moon flight; cardboard spacecraft; touchdown charts; photographs from the Moon; Moon exploration orders; astronauts jargon and wall charts showing how Apollo spacecraft and the Saturn rocket work together.

The file also contains newspaper cuttings of adverts for the datakit, May 1969.

Astrology Made Easy datakit produced by GeminiScan Limited, 1970.

The datakit contains: guidelines; birthchart discs; a zodiac calendar covering 69 years; aspect finder transparency and zodiac timetable.