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Fred Maloney photo, all rights reserved. Used with permission.
At Seashore, the convertible car design is exemplified by No. 4547, built for Brooklyn in 1906 by the Jewett Car Company of Newark, Ohio. There are 12 removable windows and panels on each side and during the years that the car was in regular operation, these were replaced by heavy metal grilles during warm weather. It has transverse seats except for short longitudinal seats at the ends, and a center aisle, with both exit and entrance made through end doors. (On other types of convertible cars, the end doors were employed with the car was closed and running boards were used when it was open.) No. 4547 was presented to the Museum by the City of New York when the last Brooklyn streetcar service was closed in 1956. All of the remaining passenger service in Brooklyn had for some years been provided by newer streamlined cars, but No. 4547 was one of several older cars kept to haul rock salt around the system for winter ice removal. As a consequence, much of the car was severely corroded and required one of the more costly and challenging restoration efforts. This superbly restored car now glows again as it did when it was first built.
History from Historic Cars: The National Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum by Ben Minnich
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