Gemini (racing car)
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The Gemini name was used on a series of Formula Junior racing cars built by Chequered Flag Engineering of Chiswick, London between 1959 and 1963.
In 1959, Graham Warner, the principal of The Chequered Flag Car Sales in Chiswick, West London, purchased the Moorland Mk 2, a Formula Junior car which had been constructed by Leslie Redmond in early 1959 from drawings supplied by Len Terry.[1] The car was renamed the Gemini Mk 1 and won on debut at Brands Hatch in September 1959.[2]
Mk 2
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Having acquired the design rights, jigs and moulds for the Moorland, along with Redmond's services as designer, Warner formed a new company, Chequered Flag Engineering.[2] The Gemini Mk 2 was subsequently produced[2] and was first raced in a Formula Junior event at Brands Hatch in October 1959.[1]
It is believed that thirty Mk 2s were built, four powered by Ford Cosworths and all others by BMC A Series engines.[2]