Checker Motors Corporation was a vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was established by Morris Markin in 1922 through a merger of Commonwealth Motors and Markin Automobile Body, and was first named the Checker Cab Manufacturing Company. Originally based in Chicago, it moved to Kalamazoo in 1923 and was renamed Checker Motors in 1958. Checker made the iconic American taxi cab, valued by taxicab companies, and the Checker Marathon. It was acquired in 2010.
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Infobox: defunct
January 14, 2010
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Checker Motors Corporation was a vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Checker Motors Corporation was a vehicle manufacturer, and later an automotive subcontractor, based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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