Yellow cab

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Yellow cabs in New York City taxi

Yellow cab taxicab operators exist all around the world (some with common heritage, some without). The original Yellow Cab Company, based in Chicago, Illinois, was one of the largest taxicab companies in the United States.

HistoryEdit

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One of the historical yellow taxis in Baku, Azerbaijan, that were replaced with violet cabs in 2011

Yellow cabs date back to at least 1798, when the musical comedy, Cabriolet Jaune (Yellow Cab), debuted at Paris' Theatre de l'Opera Comique National. Yellow cabs were known in Paris and London throughout most of the 1800s. A yellow cab company shook up the New York Cab system in the mid-1880s, offering cheaper, more predictable fares than competitors. One of the first automobile cabs in London, in the 1890s, was a yellow electric automobile.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Yellow Cab Company of Chicago was founded by John D. Hertz in 1907.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Their specially designed taxicabs were powered by a 4-cylinder Continental engine equipped with a purpose-built taxicab body supplied by the Racine Body Co., of Racine, Wisconsin.<ref name=coachbuilt_yellow/> According to Yellow Cab Co. tradition, the color (and name) yellow was selected by John Hertz as the result of a survey he commissioned at a "local university", which indicated it was the easiest color to spot.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> However, "he was certainly not the first taxicab operator to use that color and the university study to which B. C. Forbes refers has yet to be discovered."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2017, a study showed that the color yellow, for taxis, was more noticeable, resulting in 9% fewer accidents.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1908, Albert Rockwell, founder and General Manager of the New Departure Manufacturing Co. of Bristol, Connecticut, travelled to Europe to evaluate their taxi systems, hoping to develop a similar one in Washington, D.C.<ref>The New York Times (June 14, 1908)</ref> Ernest Wyckoff, Alfred Church and Clarence Partridge, well-known automobile dealers in New York, had a number of orange-yellow colored Rockwell taxicabs operating on Manhattan streets in 1909.<ref name=coachbuilt_yellow>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By March 1910, the Connecticut Cab Co. (essentially the directors of New Departure Manufacturing Co.) assumed operating control of Wyckoff, Church and Partridge's taxis.<ref>The New York Law Journal (March 10, 1910)</ref>

The Yellow Taxicab Co. was incorporated in New York on April 4, 1912. Its fares that year started at 50¢/mile (roughly equivalent to $12.12 in 2016 adjusted for inflation).<ref>As calculated by the U.S. Bureau of Statistics' CPI Inflation Calculator; year selected is 1913, the closest year available.</ref> Among its directors and major stockholders were Albert Rockwell and the Connecticut Cab Co.Template:Citation needed Shortly after incorporation the Yellow Taxicab Co. merged with the Cab and Taxi Co., and with the strength of Connecticut Cab Co. behind them, the young business assumed a large share of the New York market. Its independent corporate life was fairly short, however, as fare wars and regulations forced a merger with the Mason-Seaman Transportation Co. on March 3, 1914. Shortly after, an injunction was filed by the company, seeking to restrain the city from enforcing the Public Hack ordinances, but it was rejected on appeal.<ref>The New York Times (May 1, 1915)</ref> By 1916, the company was being held in receivership, due to suits by numerous creditors.<ref>In re Mason-Seaman Trans. Co., The Federal Reporter, Vol.235</ref>

The Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company was formed in 1920.<ref name=coachbuilt_yellow/>

List of cab companiesEdit

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AustraliaEdit

The Yellow Cab Group was founded in 1924 and operates in Queensland and Tasmania.
Yellow Cabs operate in Melbourne.
Yellow and Coastal Cabs are in Perth.

CanadaEdit

The Yellow Cab Company of Vancouver, British Columbia was founded in 1921.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Yellow Cab Company of Toronto, Ontario.
Yellow Cab of Burlington, Ontario.
Yellow Cab of Edmonton, Alberta was purchased and given the Yellow name in 1945.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Yellow Cab of Halifax, was founded in 1962 and is the largest Yellow Cab brand in Atlantic Canada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Yellow Cab of Victoria, British Columbia, formerly Empress Taxi.

GreeceEdit

Taxis in Athens are required to be yellow since 1987.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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A yellow taxi in Kolkata

HungaryEdit

Taxis in Budapest are required to be yellow since 2013.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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IndiaEdit

Yellow Cab of Hyderabad, India.
Yellow Taxi of Kolkata, India.
AssureCabs taxi service for Ahmedabad to Vadodara, website.

SingaporeEdit

ComfortDelGro in Singapore.

SpainEdit

Taxis in Barcelona are yellow and black since 1929. This is a major exception to the rule of taxi colouring in Spain, with taxis of most cities being white.<ref>Why are taxicabs yellow and black in Barcelona? Sport (Spanish newspaper)</ref>

United KingdomEdit

Big Yellow Taxi Co. based in northeast Fife, Scotland. <ref>Big Yellow Taxi Co</ref>

United StatesEdit

The Yellow Cab Company of Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1909.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Yellow Checker Cab of Peoria, Illinois, was founded in 1922 and is the largest taxi fleet in downstate Illinois.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation