"A number of automotive innovations were credited to the Brewster firm, many of them the work of William Brewster himself. There was the two-plane 'Brewster' windshield, for instance, designed to overcome the dazzling reflections of city lights. There were the canework seat lids, which permitted seat cushions to 'breathe', and thus to resume their normal shape when passengers debarked. There were the disappearing jump seats that folded neatly away; and roll-up windows, displacing the old-fashioned strap lifts. There was even a special finish - a closely guarded Brewster secret - which was far more durable than the varnish that as in general use before the advent of Duco lacquer.

Then there was the distinctive heart-shaped grille of the Brewster-bodied Ford.

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