CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 14:34 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the European vinyl LP of Bob Dylan's Oh Mercy (CBS 465800 1, barcode 5099746580018), which family/oh-mercy names. Identity from the two MusicBrainz releases carrying the barcode (GB, NL) and six. This is the current version.

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# CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
disambiguation: CBS United Kingdom's record pressing plant in Buckinghamshire, 1964 to 1991
summary: Record pressing and tape duplication plant in Buckinghamshire run by CBS United Kingdom Ltd. from September 1964 to January 1991, at Aston Clinton and from 1980 in Aylesbury.
country: GB
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                        | market | from    | until   | ended | status  | source    | note                                                                                      |
| -------- | ----------------------------- | ------ | ------- | ------- | ----- | ------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/sca-music-holdings-uk |        | 1964-09 | 1991-01 | true  | sourced | ^dc-aston | Discogs: run by CBS United Kingdom Ltd. from September 1964 until the end of January 1991 |
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind  | address                                          | country | source    | note                                                 |
| ---- | ----- | ------------------------------------------------ | ------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
|      | plant | Rabans Lane, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP19 8TS | GB      | ^dc-aston | Address from June 1980, given on Discogs as obsolete |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                  | type   | locale | from | until |
| --------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| CBS Aston Clinton     | name   |        |      |       |
| CBS Aylesbury         | search |        | 1980 |       |
| Oriole Pressing Plant | name   |        |      | 1964  |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref      | url                                   | title                                                     | accessed   | publisher | kind      | published | record_id | locator          | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------- | ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | ---------------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| dc-aston | https://api.discogs.com/labels/553982 | Discogs company 553982: CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton | 2026-09-26 | Discogs   | catalogue |           | 553982    | profile, contact |         |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
The CBS pressing plant at Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire pressed records and duplicated tapes for CBS United Kingdom Ltd. from September 1964 until the end of January 1991; before the CBS takeover it belonged to the Levy brothers' Oriole business and was also known as the Oriole pressing plant.[^dc-aston] The plant moved to nearby Aylesbury in 1980, opening officially on 20 June 1980 with 40 automatic Hamilton presses for LPs and 20 presses for singles, and it printed its own covers and labels.[^dc-aston]

The last record it pressed, in January 1991, was Motörhead's 1916; the site then became a video duplication plant and CBS records were pressed in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Its LPs carry two pressing rings, of 32 mm and 64 mm, and "Made in England" on the labels.[^dc-aston]
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