A. Pengelley & Co

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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]

Contents

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:

YearBuyerQtyProduct
1910–1912 Municipal Tramways Trust 70Bodies 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 11Bodies for use on the Holdfast Bay railway line [8]
1912–1914South Australian Railways25Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars [5]
1913 Victorian Railways 8Tram bodies for the St Kilda to Brighton Beach tramway [9] [10]
1916 Commonwealth Railways 4Bodies for D class dining cars (Trans-Australian Railway) [11]
1921–1929Municipal Tramways Trust81Bodies for 50 type F trams and 31 of their steel-framed F1 variant [5]
1923–1924South Australian Railways10Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars [5]
1924–1925 State Electricity Commission of Victoria 8Bodies for Geelong system trams [12]
1929Municipal Tramways Trust30Bodies for 30 type H interurban-style trams [13] to run on the newly electrified Glenelg tram line
Carts outside A Pengelley factory ca 1910 (WS Smith)(SLSA B 68081).jpg
Interior of Pengelley & Co furniture factory before fire, ca 1913 (SLSA B 243).jpg
Aerial photo of factory of A Pengelley and Co, Edwardstown South Australia ca 1934 (D Darian Smith, SLSA BRG-397-2-62-5).jpg
Carts outside the factory carrying furniture made for the Royal Military College, about 1910Interior of the factory about 1913, before the huge fireThe factory about 1934, looking north-west; South Road is in the foreground
South Australian Railways end-and-centre-loading car no 432 (Richard Sanders) (NRM 1-8-095-10).jpg
F1 type tram 282.JPG
Type H tram 364 between Stops 11 and 12, Glenelg line, July 1972.jpg
Pengelley built 35 end-loading passenger car bodies of this design for the South Australian Railways in 1912–14 and 1923–24The 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 AustraliaIn 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
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