A. Pengelley & Co
Australian manufacturer
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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]
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Motor car bodies
Railway carriage bodies
Tram bodies
A fleet of new wagons displayed outside the factory on South Road, Edwardstown about 1918 | |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Products | Furniture Motor car bodies Railway carriage bodies Tram bodies |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||