Reflecting Road Studs
From Graces Guide
of Boothtown, Halifax.
Manufacturers of Catseye reflecting road studs.
1935 Company founded by Percy Shaw.
The first order was for 36 road studs for use near Bradford. Leeds Highways Dept then ordered a hundred studs, then another hundred three months later.
1937 the Minister of Transport arranged for a five mile stretch of road in Oxfordshire to be a test bed for several types of road studs - the test showed that Shaw's was the only satisfactory one. But orders were slow in coming.
WWII The black-out brought government funding for a supply of 40,000 studs per week, prompting a great increase in orders.
Road Reflecting Studs Ltd is still located in Boothtown, Halifax: it ships over a million road studs worldwide each year.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Yorks Phil Soc