Tyre studs on display at trade show, Atlantic City, USA

Dec. 12, 1969 - Studs: Once a Royal Luxury. Studs provide extra grip on slippery roads. Even the ancient Assyrians knew this: to prevent their war chariots from swerving, they had studs driven into the wheels. This was 2600 years ago. A relief excavated in Nineveh, which can be seen in the Louvre in Paris, shows that King Ashurbanipal afforded himself the luxury of wheel studs. Exactly 100 years ago, Viennese hackney coachmen realised the concept of tyre studs in Europe and in 1904 the Emperor Franz Joseph had the wheels of his coach, which was no longer pulled by horses but engine-driven, provided with studs. Today, 400 small cemented carbide studs are bulleted into the four tyres of a car to provide a firm grip on icy roads and to ensure the safety of driver and passengers. Krupp Widia studs ad OKU studding equipments are on display at the 50th Annual NTRDA Convention and Trade Show in Atlantic City in New Jersey, to demonstrate their quality and economy

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