Jan 20 (Reuters) - Auto-parts supplier Checker Motors Corp, which used to make the iconic Checker taxi cab, filed for bankruptcy protection, citing high labor and raw material costs, as well as weak ...
Hard times continue at Checker Motors Corp., which has operated in Kalamazoo for more than three-quarters of a century. The company has told its employees that the plant could close, and that the ...
Continue reading for the timeline ... 1919 - Entrepreneur Morris Markin begins operating a Chicago taxicab fleet at the same time he opens an auto body plant called Markin Body. May 1922 - Checker Cab ...
You might say Joel Simmons has a checkered past, present and future. He just loves Checker Motors Corporation vehicles, the big utilitarian automobiles used mostly as taxis and built only in Kalamazoo ...
Checker Motors Corp., the auto-parts maker that once produced the Checker taxi cab, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to Automotive News.Associated PressThe last four-door New York ...
Q: Greg, I lived in Chicago for over 40 years and vividly remember three vehicles from back in the 1950s. I remember the International delivery trucks called the Metro, and also the four-door ...
The roomy Checker cab, one of the few taxis left that passengers can climb into without awkward gymnastics, is a familiar sight on many U.S. streets; of the nation’s 135,000 taxicabs, some 35,000 are ...
You might say Joel Simmons has a checkered past, present and future. He just loves Checker Motors Corporation vehicles, the big utilitarian automobiles used mostly as taxis and built only in Kalamazoo ...
Q: Greg, I lived in Chicago for over 40 years and vividly remember three vehicles from back in the 1950s. I remember the International delivery trucks called the Metro, and also the four-door ...