A. Pengelley & Co

A. Pengelley & Co
Headquarters
South Road, Edwardstown
,
South Australia
ProductsFurniture
Motor car bodies
Railway carriage bodies
Tram bodies

A. Pengelley & Co was a manufacturer of furniture, horse-drawn vehicles, motor car bodies and tram and railway rolling stock bodies in Adelaide, South Australia.[1] The company had a 3-acre (1.2-hectare) factory on South Road, Edwardstown.[2]

On 25 December 1913, much of the factory was destroyed by fire, except for the railway carriage and tram construction facilities.[2][3]

In 1954, the premises were purchased and occupied by the Hills Hoists company to manufacture rotary clothes lines.[4]

Production

The company manufactured a large range of furniture and in the horse-drawn transport era made coaches of various types. It was also successful in tendering for contracts to manufacture wooden bodies[note 1] for trams and railway passenger cars, including the following:

Year Buyer Qty Product
1910–1912 Municipal Tramways Trust 70 Bodies for types D (50) and E (20) electric trams. Strong public opposition to overseas manufacture ensured that the Type E bodies were manufactured by the J.G. Brill Company in Philadelphia, erected there, dismantled and packed, and re-erected by Pengelley.[6][7][5]: 6 of Part 1 
1912–1913 South Australian Railways 11 Bodies for use on the Holdfast Bay railway line[8]
1912–1914 South Australian Railways 25 Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars[5]
1913 Victorian Railways 8 Tram bodies for the St Kilda to Brighton Beach tramway[9] [10]
1916 Commonwealth Railways 4 Bodies for D class dining cars (Trans-Australian Railway)[11]
1921–1929 Municipal Tramways Trust 81 Bodies for 50 type F trams and 31 of their steel-framed F1 variant[5]
1923–1924 South Australian Railways 10 Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars[5]
1924–1925 State Electricity Commission of Victoria 8 Bodies for Geelong system trams[12]
1929 Municipal Tramways Trust 30 Bodies for 30 type H interurban-style trams[13] to run on the newly electrified Glenelg tram line
Carts outside the factory carrying furniture made for the Royal Military College, about 1910 Interior of the factory about 1913, before the huge fire The factory about 1934, looking north-west; South Road is in the foreground
Pengelley built 35 end-loading passenger car bodies of this design for the South Australian Railways in 1912–14 and 1923–24 The company built 81 Type F and F1 trams for the Municipal Tramways Trust between 1921 and 1928; no. 282 now runs at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda, South Australia In 1929, Pengelley built all 30 of the Type H "Bay" trams that ran at speed on the 9.2 kilometres (5.7 miles) private right-of-way of the Glenelg line, and on some suburban lines

Notes

  1. ^ Undergear, braking and control systems were imported from the UK and US.[5]: 6 of Part 1 

References

  1. ^ A big furniture family Adelaide Advertiser 26 April 1910 page 6
  2. ^ a b Large fire at Edwardstown The Express & Telegraph 26 December 1913 page 1
  3. ^ Disastrous Fire The West Australian 27 December 1913 page 7
  4. ^ The Hills story Pandora.com, accessed 20 December 2024
  5. ^ a b c d e Wilson, Tom; Radcliffe, John; Steele, Christopher (2021). Adelaide's public transport – the first 180 years. Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743058855.
  6. ^ "The tramways". The Register. (Original, Adelaide. Digital reproduction, Canberra: National Library of Australia (Trove digital newspaper archive)). 9 June 1909. p. 9. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Tramways: the fifty new car-bodies to be manufactured locally at Messrs Pengelly's factory". The Evening Journal. Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra. 8 June 1909. p. 1. Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia – Trove digital newspaper archive.
  8. ^ Drymalik, Chris (2024). "Glenelg Line passenger carriages - "260" type". Chris's Commonwealth Railways Information. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Tramcars for Victoria". The Mail. Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra. 7 June 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia – Trove digital newspaper archive.
  10. ^ "Victorian Railways No 20". Melbourne Tram Museum. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Commonwealth Gazette". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 5, no. 255. Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra. 9 September 1916. p. 5. Retrieved 16 December 2024 – via National Library of Australia – Trove digital newspaper archive.
  12. ^ "Geelong 22". Trolley Wire. No. 135. Sutherland NSW: South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society Limited. August 1971. p. 8. ISSN 0155-1264.
  13. ^ Wheaton, Roger T. (1975). Destination Paradise: a technical and photographic review of the electric trams and trolleybuses of the Municipal Tramways Trust, Adelaide, South Australia (2 ed.). Sydney: Australian Electric Traction Association. pp. 11, 20, 22, 24, 29. ISBN 0909459029.