Ace Records Ltd was started in 1981 as a separate company from Swift Records Ltd the limited company trading as Chiswick Records. When Chiswick stopped in 1984, Ace continued repressing the better records of Chiswick. Over the years Ace acquired the rights of Fantasy Records, Stax Records, Specialty Records and Vanguard Records. Chiswick Records was a British record company started by Roger Armstrong and Ted Carroll that had a distribution deal with EMI. Subsidiary Ace Records was started in 1984, and Chiswick closed a bit later. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fantasy Records is a United States based record label, which was founded by Max and Sol Weiss in 1949 in San Francisco, California. ... Stax Records was a Memphis, Tennessee based record label that existed from 1959 to 1976. ... Specialty Records was an American record label. ... Vanguard Records was a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. ...