Hello list members,
I am researchng 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.
Many thanks and best wishes - David Patmore david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx