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Query re: manual vinyl pressing system



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

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