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For you snow bound guys, although not much.:fisher:

I think thats about as rare as they get...cars/cabbies were a new deal...There could have been only one cab company, especially in Memphis. irregardless, to think about the stuff those boys have been finding out in there, dating back to that period, who knows who dropped it? But this one is at least trackable to some success, and therin lies the excitement!
Mud
 
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The badge fits the year he was driver..City must have issued the badges has to be some records in city archives ..Possible the county issued them too....

I don't think the Cab Company Licensed the drivers ...But could be wrong.... State issues Chauffers license then you get hired by companies.. Maybe TN issued them but really doubt that in 1918..
 
Either way, 1918 is early date for a cabbie, and that is a low issue number too. Compared to the pics and badge numbers NeitaSC posted anyway..perhaps in the news paper archives of that time there is some mention of the cab company having a driver robbed, killed, or arrested running liquor or something out in those woods. Heck, they may have even posted an ad...I sure hope somebody figures this out quick!:drool:
Mud
 
From my research, it appears that Kelly was still in school in 1918, and didn't start working for the cab company until 1919, so that might eliminate Kelly as the owner of the badge. Here's a snippet of what I found, and the link where I found it. (Interesting piece of history!)

His college career was brief and unspectacular. Enrolled as a probationary student, George Barnes picked up thirty-one demerits in the first semester and twenty-four more in the first few weeks of the second. His highest grade was a 79, or C-plus, in physical hygiene, and he recieved a zero in woodwork and "incomplete" in military science. He reportedly once climbed the flagpole and repaired a pulley, to erase demerits. Barnes left the school on January 27, 1918.

It was at the college that Barnes met Geneva Ramsey, also of Memphis. They were married in 1919. George had two children by Geneva but she divorced him soon afterward. He went to work as a cabdriver for the 784 Taxi Cab Company in Memphis but soon quit. With Prohibition in force, moonshining and bootlegging were more profitable. In 1933, Geneva, still in Memphis but by then Mrs. F. X. Trimbach, told reporters she had divorced George seven years earlier "because he was running in bad company." "George and I were married in Clarksville, Mississippi fourteen years ago", she said. "He was a student at A & M College and I was just graduated from Columbia Institute at Columbia, Tennessee. I was only 17 and George was 19. I had to advertise notice to get a divorce because I didn't know where to reach him."

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/r/John-Davis-Rorer/FILE/0002page.html
 
I found that link this morning too. Looks like MGK isn't the wearer of Badge #7 .... It was fun while it lasted... Now we must find out who did wear it..Maybe he still worked there in MGK days and they knew each other..or were criminal associated later.... Or he was a straight shooter working to make a living... Seems badges were changed each year..otherwise no date would be required..

I can not find anything related to 784 cab company.. Looks like local Memphis research in Library will have to be the source of that info.. Or possible maybe some Newspaper saved archive will fill in some blanks.....
 
So called after Hackney Horses used to pull wagons for freight hauling etc... Not likely in 1918 would a hack Badge be issued to the new cab companies in business.. but rather a Horse drawn type vehicle used for moving items...
 
I worked on it last night for a while and there is so much early history out there it is near mind boggling. Well, it is for my feeble mind, anyway. It would be fun to know who it was issued to, or even, see another one just like it. Anyway, thanks for you guys efforts. It might just be one of those items found that we may never know its true history. HH jim tn
 
Surely this forum has some poindexters lurking about with the requisite skills and some old tyme gumption to resolve this mystery..!
Mud.
 
I don't know if anybody noticed this, but this "Autos for Hire" badge is almost identical in layout to the "Hack for Hire", and they are only three years apart. It wouldn't seem unreasonable that they changed things a little from year to year. The "Autos for Hire" badge came from that badge site that was posted earlier.

Also, I'm seeing plenty of hack driver badges from New York (ok, not plenty, but some), and NONE from Memphis. This one is really a mystery!!!

There has to be something on it, somewhere!

HH

Jake
 
[attachment 258122 71415.jpg] [size=large]His college career was brief and unspectacular. Enrolled as a probationary student, George Barnes (Machine Gun Kelly) picked up thirty-one demerits in the first semester and twenty-four more in the first few weeks of the second. His highest grade was a 79, or C-plus, in physical hygiene, and he recieved a zero in woodwork and "incomplete" in military science. He reportedly once climbed the flagpole and repaired a pulley, to erase demerits. Barnes left the school on January 27, 1918.[/size]
 
I have looked everywhere can not find anything else on it..
 
I've spent more hours on looking as well with no luck. Thanks for all your efforts. HH jim tn
 
NEVER GIVE UP~~~~



These are the contact names for this website: http://www.chauffeurbadges.com/index.html

Welcome to my web site. This is a work in progress. I have listed some of the badges from my collection. I am also listing Dashboard discs, windshield stickers and other interesting items from my collection. I would appreciate any corrections or comments. If you'd like to contact us, please use the emails below.

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