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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.

General file containing documents relating to wholesale agents.

Contains correspondence, reports and memorandum concerning: wholesale agency contracts; the London Wholesalers Federation; James & W Mayell Limited, wholesale newspaper distributors; waste; the Office of Fair Trading; VAT rates; Messageries Paul Kraus and circulation in Luxembourg; issues with circulation; the cover price; publishing the newspaper on New Years Day; the destruction of copies of the newspaper; circulation figures; cover price discounts; load times; handling allowances; Irish newsagents; a meeting of the Circulation Executive; trade terms; cessation of mid-week printed section; handling of the colour magazine; Sunday contracts; credit control; regional wholesalers; Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT); Scottish wholesalers; The Times and other newspapers; overtime payments; distribution; National Society of Provincial Wholesale Sunday Newspaper Distributors; WH Smith and Son; Sunday Newspaper Distributor Association; National Federation of Retail Newsagents, Booksellers & Stationers.

Primary correspondents include: Roger Harrison; Lee Simpson; Nick Morrell; Reg Sudbury; Brian Nicholson; Derek Linnett.
Creator: The Observer Limited; Managing Director's Office; Roger Harrison