Checker Motors Corporation was an vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The company was established...
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Checker Taxi was a dominant taxicab company and national franchisor that was based in Chicago, Illinois. Checker Motors was an American vehicle manufacturer...
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The Checker Marathon is an automobile produced by the Checker Motors Corporation of Kalamazoo, Michigan, between 1961 and 1982. It was marketed as a passenger...
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Victor Potamkin (section Checker Motors)
Cole bought into Checker Motors Corporation with the intent of re-energizing the company and developing a new, more modern Checker. With Cole as chairman...
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The Checker Aerobus is an automobile manufactured on two different wheelbases by the Checker Motors Corporation from 1962 until 1977. Meant primarily...
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the Carbon Motors E7, a purpose-built police car. After a government loan request failed, the company closed in 2013. Carbon Motors Corporation was founded...
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Morris Markin (section Formation of Checker Cab)
American businessman who founded the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company (which would later become the Checker Motors Corporation). Born into a Jewish family in...
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investors include the Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street Corporation. In 2007, Tesla Motors Vice President Bernard Tse, co-founder of Astoria Networks...
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Ally Financial (redirect from General Motors Acceptance Corporation)
General Motors (GM) as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) to provide financing to automotive customers. In 1939, the company founded Motors Insurance...
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Chrysler (redirect from Chrysler Motors Corporation)
Diamond-Star Motors was created, further expanding the Chrysler-Mitsubishi relationship. In 1987, Chrysler acquired American Motors Corporation (AMC), which...
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