Checker Cab Club Volume 2 Issue 1 February 2016 1 Editor’s Introduction We’ll update the Surge taxi story, first Welcome to the sixth edition of the presented in another Checker Club, Checker Cab Facebook Group newsletter. Surge expert William Brandum Free of charge, feel free to print and updates his article with new facts and distribute and put in your own binder. If figures. you would like to submit an article or As promised in the last issue we’ll personal profile regarding you or your discuss the Doug Klauck’s award Checker please feel free to submit all winning A8 and we’ll share some content to me at the email address on the stories about the legendary Checker right side of this page. design engineer Herbert Snow. As So what’s in this issue? We’ll present the always we’ll present an historical first truly new Checker, the 1928 Model K article, this time the 1964 Checker Taxicab and Limo. This important Checker Town Limo. Editor: Joe Fay was the platform for all Checker sold Please enjoy edition six. Happy New
[email protected] between 1928 and 1940. It was also the Years. Next issue, we share updated Owner 1949,1950, 1957 first Checker not based on the for the upcoming Auburn Checker Checkers Commonwealth Mogul taxicab, truly new. event 2 The First True Checker As discussed in previous Checker Cab Club Newsletter, s the first Checkers produced by the new entity Checker Cab Manufacturing was the Model C in 1922. That said, realistically those first Checkers were really just rehashed 1919 Commonwealth Mogul Taxicabs.