Curry's shops were, like many of the early post WWI record shops, Bicycle shops mainly. In fact, Curry's had been manufacturing bikes since 1884. When they decided to sell records, they wanted to use their own name and initially Edison Bell pressed the records for them (some of these have pasted-over labels) just before the Great War. After the war, Crystalate pressed the records, initally from Guardsman masters, and then from their own "Imperial" masters. In the late 1920s, Currys pasted their labels over old stocks of Piccadilly records. more