PRESSAC? I was just thinking when we were kids, my mum had these funny blocks delivered and did some home working. I can't remember what she had to do with them, but I do remember they were called PRESSAC. Does anyone else remember them?

Yes I think Pressac was the company. My cousin had bits and bobs that needed fitting together and sometimes I used to do them while we watched TV, that was Pressac too! I googled it and looks like they still exist... http://tinyurl.com/7ql66pj

I used to work for Pressac, they had facilites on Acton Road (now flats), Acton Grove (which previously was a pencil factory), New Tythe Street, Leopold Street in the old mill, a subsidary on Oakland Avenue (now flats) and another one in Sandiacre/Stapleford so were quite big employers in the town but over the years contraction and consolidation has resulted in the current facility at Glaisdale Drive in Nottingham.

I think they must have been plastic tv/telecom mouldings to have contacts inserted into them, though it was a long time ago.

I too used to work from home for Pressac. I had a little hand held machine that pressed pins into plastic plugs, these were from the Leopold Street factory. Later I had dozens of coloured cables that had to have their ends put into plastic plugs at each end. They took forever to do and I had stuff all over the house. The pay was rubbish and you had to do loads to get anything decent. Eventually I went to work at the Leopold Street factory where I worked a twilight shift. You could go there at any time and get a job on almost any shift.

A similar company was called Tudor Components and they were based at Attenborough. They did very similar work, also rubbish pay. I worked for them too.