Category:Checker Motors Corporation
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- Checker Cab Manufacturing Company incorporated May 1922 to own and merge these businesses:
- Commonwealth Motors Corporation (Commonwealth cars. Mogul taxis) and
- Markin Body Company provided bodies
- The first Checker cab was the 1922 model H
- 1958 renamed Checker Motors Corporation — taxi production ended July 1982 and focus on parts business
- 1989 CMC Kalamazoo
- 1999 New York's last in-service Checker Taxi was retired on July 26, 1999 (because of emission controls)
- 2009 January CMC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
- 2009 November demolition of plant began
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