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The first Checker cab rolls off Michigan assembly line

A vintage Checker cab. (istockphoto)
JW
By:
Jack Walsworth
June 14, 2016 05:00 AM

Checker Cab Manufacturing Co.’s first cab rolls off the line in Kalamazoo, Mich., on June 18, 1923.

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