The Meadowbrook models were produced from 1949 to 1954. The Dodge Meadowbrook was a full size four door sedan built by Chrysler.

The vehicle highlighted in this article is a 1950 Dodge Meadowbrook. Two additional photo articles we’ve published you’ll find interesting are the 1953 Pontiac Chieftain with it’s unique hood ornament and the 1947 Pontiac Streamlinerrepresenting sleeker post World War Two designs. The potential of the taxi cab market was obvious to many of them. The concept truly went international.īy the 1920’s several players were involved building taxi cabs.

Just a few years after the cabs appearance on the streets of Chicago, Yellow Cabs became a common sight on the streets of four of Australia’s capital cities.

The Yellow taxi cab concept really took off. Hertz would eventually be in a hot competitive taxi battle in Chicago with Morris Markin’s new Checker Cab company. In case you’re wondering, this was the same John Hertz whose name is used on the large car rental agency. To add a bit to the confusion of names, in regards to John Hertz in Chicago, he also founded the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company in 1920 which was totally separate from his Chicago cab company. For one thing, John Hertz used cars from his Chicago car dealership. Another interesting difference between the two companies was that they used very different vehicles. This was at a time that the automotive industry itself was just getting started. John Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company of Chicago in 1914, totally different from the one operating in New York and Baltimore. In 1909 there was a Yellow Cab Company of Baltimore founded. Actually, there were more than just one cab company that utilized the color “ yellow“. The surprising thing about the Yellow Cabs is how long they’ve been working on American streets. In fact, a good number of the early car makers and auto experimenters were involved in the carriage building business.ĭuring your travels today you might very well see a lot of Yellow Cab taxis but chances are you won’t run across a 1950 Dodge Yellow Cab like the one we are showcasing here. The automobile would finally begin to take shape in a usable form right at the turn of the century. The problems with the Columbia cab were the batteries which obviously needed constant charging. The Columbia Hansom taxi cab was designed with two motors at the rear of the vehicle and could carry four passengers. Believe it or not there were a good number of people who preferred the horse. This was that time between the horse and the automobile.

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