New York City may have the Taxi of Tomorrow these days, but a new take on the classic Checker cab could soon be on the road. Checker Motor Cars of Haverhill, Mass., is planning to manufacture two ...

Checker Motors Corp., the parts supplier that gained fame in the middle of the last century with the Checker Marathon taxi cab, has filed for bankruptcy protection after 87 years in business.

Once a vital part of day-to-day transportation in major cities like Chicago, Boston and, most notably, New York, Checker-brand taxis ceased production in 1982 and the cabs have since been replaced … ...

A computerized dispatcher system will be installed in 650 Yellow and Checker taxis within eight months, bringing quicker service to telephone customers throughout Chicago, a cab company official ...

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 ...

Morris Markin, the founder of Checker Taxi Cabs, had humble beginnings. At twelve years old, in the early 1900’s, Morris Markin had started working in the largest commission supplier in Smolesk ...

in the latest press note, the administrative executives of texas yellow cab & checker taxi service disclosed the facts that made this yellow checker cab company the best taxi service provider in ...

That’s right, if you thought that a BMW 7-Series with a V12 and a taxi cab body wasn’t sketchy enough, it’s also suffering from a transmission that slips. Under the classic Checker Marathon ...

Anne Morrissy’s lively new book, Street Fight: The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s, concentrates largely on a decade-plus span, from the 1910s into the 1920s, when Yellow Cab and Checker Taxi ...