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	YELLOW TRUCK & COACH MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND PREDECESSOR COMPANIES*
		YELLOW TRUCK and COACH MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND PREDECESSOR COMPANIES*
		YELLOW TRUCK and COACH MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND PREDECESSOR COMPANIES* [U.S. * Predecessor companies:
		Yellow Truck and Coach was finally merged with G.M.C. on 30 September 1943 to form the General Motors Truck and Bus Division.
	clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/chevytalk/GMhistory/YELLOWTRUCK.html (98 words)

	wiki/Yellow Cab Definition / wiki/Yellow Cab Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The original Yellow Cab Company based in Chicago, Illinois is one of the largest taxicabA taxicab (sometimes called taxi, cab, or hack) is a vehicle for hire which conveys passengers between locations of their choice.
		The related Yellow Cab and Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing CompanyYellow Coach was founded in 1923 as a subsidiary of the Yellow Cab Company by John D. Hertz and was an early player in bus manufacturing in the United States.
		Yellow Cab of Chicago, Illinois was founded by John Hertz in 1915, and claims to be the "oldest and largest" cab management and services provider in the US (see Baltimore above) [3].
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Yellow_Cab (2491 words)

	The Hertz Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company was begun by Walter L. Jacobs in 1918, who started a car rental operation in Chicago with a dozen Model Ts.
		As a public company, Hertz was traded on the NYSE under the symbol HRZ until the purchase of outstanding stock by Ford.
		In the late 90s, the company pioneered in-car satellite based GPS navigation in a portion of its rental fleet with the introduction of Hertz Neverlost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hertz_Corporation (517 words)

	Coachbult.com - Hertz
		Eventually, the Chicago Motor Coach Company was sold to the Chicago Transit Authority, and the Omnibus Corporation acquired the Hertz Drive-Yourself System from General Motors Corporation, disposing of its New York City bus operations in the process.
		Yellow was selected as the result of a survey by well-known research institute.
		The company was also the first to use automatic windshield wipers, ultrahigh frequency two-way radios and in recent years it was the first large fleet to use transistorised UHF radio, and passenger seat belts.
	www.coachbuilt.com /bui/h/hertz/hertz.htm (3378 words)

	GM - Corporate Info - History - 1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inland Manufacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio, is established to produce steering wheels for GM cars.
		Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company is organized, with General Motors Truck as a subsidiary and General Motors Corporation holding a large interest.
		The acquisition includes Ternstedt Manufacturing Company, which is engaged in the manufacture of automobile body hardware and metal stampings.
	www.gm.com /company/corp_info/history/gmhis1920.html (1198 words)

	Reliance Motor Truck
		The Reliance Truck, Randolph Truck and Rapid Truck Companies were combined into one company by William Durant, who bought them to add to his collection of automotive manufacturing companies.
		There were several manufacturing concerns in the Owosso area, at that time, including Bentley's plant, Owosso Manufacturing, who might have lost employees to a new employer due to the fact that GM paid more per hour.
		Many truck manufacturers in the early 1900's were always looking for publicity and truck races seemed to draw public attention.
	www.shiawasseehistory.com /gmc.html (2819 words)

	Coachbult.com - General Motors Corporation
		Established in 1923 as a subsidiary of the Yellow Cab Company, Yellow Coach was one of the most important names in the bus industry of America.
		GMC executives engineered a merger with Yellow Motor Coach Manufacturing, which led to the formation of Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Co., with the General Motors Truck Co. as a subsidiary.
		In fact, the director of operations came from a GM subsidiary, Yellow Coach, and members of the Board of Directors came from Greyhound, which was founded and controlled by General Motors.
	www.coachbuilt.com /bui/g/gm/gm.htm (4612 words)

	The Straight Dope: Why does every city seem to have a Yellow Cab company?
		Yellow, needless to say, won, and thus was born what eventually became the Chicago Yellow Cab Company.
		In 1925, having made his pile, he sold controlling interest in many of his companies, including what was by then known as the Yellow Truck and Coach manufacturing Company, to General Motors.
		Even today Chicago's Yellow and Checker cab companies are linked by a murky arrangement of interlocking directorships and mutual stock ownership, and periodically there have been scandals involving such things as approval of fare increases by the City Council.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a1_192.html (723 words)

	Chron.com/cars
		When mechanics Max and Morris Grabrowsky sold their first truck in 1902, Henry Ford had yet to impact automotive history and the gas-powered truck's chief competitor was a wagon hitched to a mule team.
		Dependability of GMC trucks was shown in grand fashion in 1916, when driver William Warwick and his wife launched a cross-country journey in a 1-ton GMC truck.
		A merger was engineered with Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. The pairing resulted in the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co., with the General Motors Truck Co. maintained as a subsidiary.
	www.chron.com /class/cars/featurevehicle/110704.html (1909 words)

	General Motors - Danish Army Vehicles Homepage
		General Motors acquires all assets of Yellow Truck and Coach, and the GMC Truck and Coach Division is formed.
		GM’s new worldwide Truck and Bus Group is formed with responsibility for the design, engineering, manufacture, sales and service of all GM trucks, buses and vans in North America and throughout the world.
		In 1982, the truck manufacturing and assembly operations of GM Assembly Division, Chevrolet Motor Division, and GMC Truck and Coach Division are merged to form Truck and Bus Manufacturing Division.
	www.armyvehicles.dk /gm.htm (9513 words)

	orange taxicabs labeled yellow \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And nationally, another example (you've probably seen 'em out on the interstate): a trucking company called Yellow paints their cabs orange, with orange details on their trailers (lorries).
		As Penske and Ryder already use canary yellow for their fleet, and as Orange is a registered trademark, perhaps a yellowish-orange makes Yellow more distinctive in the yellow-saturated transport market.
		Yellow sponsors a car in the NASCAR Busch series and their driver at the time, Jamie McMurray, explained it during an interview.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/16317 (956 words)

	Yellow Cab biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yellow Cab of Edmonton, Alberta was purchased and given the Yellow name in 1945 [1]
		The Yellow Cab Company of Baltimore, Maryland was founded in 1909 [2]
		The Yellow Cab Cooperative of San Francisco, California was founded November 8, 1977, succeeding a failed private company [6].
	yellow-cab.biography.ms (491 words)

	The Budapest Sun Online - Story page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Born in Hungary in 1879 as Sándor Herz, young Jewish entrepreneur John D Hertz set up Yellow Cab and Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company in Chicago in August 1910.
		A year later Hertz's taxi company was ruling the streets with 2,700 cabs all painted yellow and driven by prompt, well-dressed polite chauffeurs charging half the rate of their competitors'.
		According to company information, Hertz rent-a-car in Hungary is operated under franchise by Mercur Rent a Car Kft and has a fleet of nearly 700 guaranteed new cars.
	www.budapestsun.com /full_story.asp?ArticleId={3B1F539D31A94F4E82A7D8A8C35911FC}&From= (210 words)

	Types
		The next 155,000 to 173,000 trucks (references are rarely univocal) also had a closed cab but their doors could no longer be locked.
		On cargo trucks a so-called Set No 7 could be mounted: a simple monorail with a pulley block to hoist cargo along the whole lenght of the body (Figure 4).
		The apparent number of trucks is therefore larger than the actual number.
	www.gmccckw.nl /tekstpagina's/textpages_ENG/types_en_aantallen_ENG.htm (838 words)

	Cool Old Truck -- 1939 GMC 1/2-Ton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The truck, one of only 38,000, was totaled and laid to rest in an open field for nearly 10 years before Dennis Blumer began restoring it.
		The truck had belonged to Dennis' father when it was totaled, and before that it had only one other owner.
		He will be driving his truck, which has 132,000 miles, with all of its bonus features on the open road.
	www.stovebolt.com /gallery/blumer.htm (574 words)

	Antique Vehicle Ads Dot-Com, Fire Classified, Items To Trade, Donate, or Gain Information On
		We are in the begining stages of restoration after purchasing this truck back from a salvage dealer.our original info stated that it was a 1934 americalafrance but this does not appear to be the case.
		The truck went to auction in the mid 90's and could possibly be located in Southern PA. If this sounds familiar, please e-mail to Wojo431@aol.com or 410-255-3244.
		The truck was built in Chatham, Ontario at the International Harvester plant and the pump body was put on at the Bickle plant in Woodstock, Ontario.
	www.antiquevehicleads.com /fireclubs/ads/trade2002.html (6718 words)

	History
		During the Second World War (1940-1945) almost 600,000 three-axle 2½ ton army trucks were built by the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company (Pontiac, Michigan, USA), a branch of the General Motors Corporation (GMC).
		Until the 1970's CCKW's were not only used by many army's but also cherished by construction companies, breakdown and towing services, fire brigades, showmen and fair companies, and circusses.
		The only adjustments made were the installation of a new tipper body (brand Netam) and replacement of the original open cab by a so-called Dutch cabine.
	www.gmccckw.nl /tekstpagina's/textpages_ENG/historie_ENG.htm (429 words)

	Engines of Democracy
		Hanging from yellow overhead cranes are two of the largest jet engines in the world.
		The jet engines are produced by nine teams of people -- teams that are given just one basic directive: the day that their next engine must be loaded onto a truck.
		She has braces on her teeth and wears wire-rim glasses, and her bearing is no different from that of anyone else at the plant.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/28/ge.html (5326 words)

	#10 The Flxible Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1925, G.M. purchased a controlling interest in the Hertz company and formed the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company.
		General Motors purchased the remaining interest in Yellow Truck and Coach in 1943, and following World War Two, it was renamed the General Motors Truck and Coach Division.
		No more climbing a ladder at the rear of the coach to place baggage on the roof top under tarp.
	www.weekesfamily.org /weekes/Weekes,Merrill_Articles/Article11.html (299 words)

	Nevada Northern Railway Passenger Motor Coach Service
		The change from steel wheels to rubber tires was approved by the Public Service Commission on 15 June 1940, and two GM busses were subsequently ordered on 06 Sept 1940.
		The City of Ely and the City of Wells were products of the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company, an affiliate of General Motors Corporation.
		They were reportedly custom designed for the Nevada Northern and included a completely equipped rest room (toilet and lavatory), as stops were infrequent on the long desert run.
	nn.railfan.net /pass/bus/bus.html (490 words)

	The Truck Product Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Yellow Truck and Coach manufacturing company (consisting of General Motors and Yellow Cab) purchased and moved into the Truck Product Center site in the late 1920's.
		After the War, it built a myriad of products including inter-city and transit buses as well as light, medium and heavy duty trucks.
		The Truck Product Center was conceived from a closed facility of over 4 million square feet of manufacturing space.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /hosting/phoenixawards/Presentations/present_98/win_98.6.htm (146 words)

	Modern Transport
		In order to obscure the ultimate goal of increasing truck and bus sales to railroads, Sloan argued, the Railroad Service Department should be kept independent of other General Motors divisions, including its truck company.
		Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Co., plans for cooperation with railroads, 1925, n.d.
		Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Co., negotiations with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. and General Electric Co., 1925-1926, n.d.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /mss/eadmss/ms004015/ms004015.sgm (4306 words)

	Art Materials Marketplace - Classifieds - Artist Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manufacturer of Fiber Reactive MX type dyes, Acid dyes and Basic, Disperse and Direct dyes.
		Manufacturers of shipping and storage containers for prints and fine art.
		They manufacture stretcher strips as well as the highquality pre-stretched canvas suitable for acrylic and oil painting.
	www.artistresource.org /market.htm (4126 words)

	Hertz Corporation 1970's
		This historic document was printed by the Security-Columbian Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical man and woman sitting beside the company's logo.
		This item has the printed signatures of the company’s chairman (Robert L. Stone) and vice-president,finance and assistant secretary.
		In 1985, Hertz joined UAL, Inc. On December 30, 1987, Hertz was sold to Park Ridge Corporation, a company formed by Ford Motor Company and Hertz management, for the purpose of purchasing Hertz.
	www.scripophily.net /hercor.html (758 words)

	The Cars Bookstore - GM Intercity Coaches 1944-1980 Photo Archive - by Brian Grams
		During 1943, General Motors purchased the minority interest in Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co., and effective October 1, 1943, Yellow became a division of GM under the name GM Truck & Coach Division.
		It is the coaches of this latter company that are discussed in this book.
		The first GM buses were built in 1943 when the War Production Board (WPB) authorized production of 1,340 transit buses.
	www.carsbookstore.com /Store/ProductDetails_10711.ncm (308 words)

	Bourse Introductory Data Base
		Transportation, Automobile, Truck, Bus, Patent, Trade-mark, Trademark, Gramm Motors, Lima, Ohio Three-hole punch in blank margin by later collector, one word in Pulfer's hand, uniform light toning, one tear in blank margin, else very fine.
		Nearly 700 manufacturers and 3,700 individual models are profiled, including technical specs for most cars.
		By the early Twenties, Ward's facility in The Bronx was the largest commercial bakery in the world - and one of the first plants of any kind to boast "conditioned air." Promoting their "sanitary baking" procedures, Ward had dozens of brand names for their white and rye breads, rolls, and packaged cakes.
	www.cohascodpc.com /Bourse_Introductory_2.html (19055 words)

	Science Fair Projects - The Hertz Corporation
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		The company has passed through a number of hands, including General Motors, RCA, and United Airlines, and is now wholly owned by Ford Motor Company.
		Hertz was traded on the NYSE under the symbol HRZ until the purchase of outstanding stock by Ford.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/The_Hertz_Corporation (353 words)

	IndustryWeek - Leadership in Manufacturing
		A new thought-provoking bimonthly column that delves into the social, cultural and economic conditions of manufacturing across the world.
		Better Decisions With Business Intelligence: Manufacturers such as Pergo Inc. use BI to keep finished goods moving.
		Production innovation means creating new products that elate customers at prices they and the manufacturers can afford.
	www.IndustryWeek.com (293 words)

	6 February in History
		The company, which started in Wozniak's garage in 1976, had become a massive bureaucracy by the mid-1980s.
		As the fastest growing company in history, Apple experienced serious growing pains, including the hiring of a professional management team.
		Hertz, the president of the Yellow Cab and Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company, Jacobs remained Hertz’s top executive.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4feb/h4feb06.html (11840 words)

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