07 Made in Yorkshire - The Cat's Eye Traditional Cache
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07 Made in Yorkshire - The Cat's Eye
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The Cat's Eye reflective road stud was invented by Percy Shaw of Halifax 1934 and he set up a company to manufacture his invention in 1935.
In 2005, Percy Shaw was listed as one of the 50 greatest Yorkshire people in a book by Bernard Ingham.
There are several stories about how Shaw came up with the idea. The most famous involves him driving down the difficult road (Queensbury Road), with a steep drop to one side, from the Old Dolphin House to his home in Halifax. A cat on a fence along the edge of the road looked at the car, reflected his headlights back to him, allowing him to take corrective action and remain on the road.
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Gerr ba YUF