Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company

The Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of automobiles and light trucks that operated from 1920 until its sale to General Motors in 1925, and its primary product was the taxicab. It was formed in 1920 when the Walden W. Shaw Manufacturing Company, set up in 1916 by Yellow Cab Company owner-operators Walden Shaw and John D. Hertz to build taxis for their cab business, was renamed after Shaw retired. From 1921 the company made passenger cars and light trucks, and by 1923 its earnings had reached 4,005,365 dollars. In that same year Hertz established the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company as a subsidiary of the Yellow Cab Company. The sale to General Motors in 1925 ended the company as an independent maker.