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Related companies include The Hertz Corporation , Yellow Roadway and the Chicago Transit Authority . HISTORY In 1905 Walden W Shaw and John D. Hertz partnered in an Auto Agency that became the Walden W Shaw Company . In 1907 it acquired some Thomas Taxicab s with meters. The Shaw Livery Company , which combined several Livery and taxicab companies, was founded in 1910 , operating Keaton Thomas Flyer s, and Cadillac s, and ultimately 12 different models. None of these fully suited the taxicab industry, so on December 31 , 1914 the first Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company Cab was designed, and the ''Model J'' was released in August 1915 . Yellow Cab taxicab service was founded by John Hertz in December 1 , 1915 . The related Yellow Cab And Yellow Truck And Coach Manufacturing Company acquired Walter L Jacobs Car Rental business. The Yellow Truck Company and rental car business was sold to General Motors in 1926 . Hertz ran the taxicab company until 1929 , when he left to found another rental car company, Hertz Rent-a-Car , which still uses a yellow logo as well. The taxicab company was purchased in 1929 by Morris Markin , who had established Checker Cab Manufacturing Company , with the Checker Taxi , a driver's Cooperative . The company was sold again in 1996 . THE COLOR YELLOW The color (and name) Yellow was selected by John Hertz as the result of a survey by the University Of Chicago which indicated it was the easiest color to spot. AUSTRALIA The Yellow Cab Group in Australia was founded in 1924 . The Australian color scheme for Yellow Cab is more "orange" than "yellow". CANADA
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MOVIE A movie, '' The Yellow Cab Man '' was made in 1950 {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS REFERENCES
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