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Larger open bench cars quickly became popular, and 15 benches became almost the standard. The Brill Company had a patent on the one piece cast seat bench end, embodied in Connecticut Company #303. No. 9, built by Laconia in 1904 for Rhode Island's Newport & Providence Railway, uses a different bench end configuration to avoid paying the Brill loyalty. It survived as part of a home in Newport until it was rescued by the Fall River and Old Colony Railroad Museum in Massachusetts, which subsequently gave the carbody to Seashore in 1990.
History from Historic Cars: The National Collection at the Seashore Trolley Museum by Ben Minnich
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