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Dear ARSC list members,
I am researching an article on 'The Record
Society', a small English mail order record club that operated between 1958 and
1962.
This company used what I believe was a 'cold'
pressing system for producing its records, whereby plastic granules were
handpressed into LPs without heat. I understand from the founder of the company
that this technology was imported for the Caribbean, where it had been developed
for small runs of LPs of local interest. I believe it was also used
by the English record company 'Topic', which specialised in folk
music.
The advantages of the system seem to have been
firstly that records could be pressed to order, and secondly that coloured discs
could be produced, again to order. The critical disadvatange was that often the
pressings were gritty.
I would be very grateful indeed if anyone could add
any further detail to this rather sketchy information concerning this inusual
process.
Many thanks and best wishes - David
Patmore david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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