A. Pengelley & Co
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 A fleet of wagons displayed outside the factory on Scouth Road, Edwardstown about 1918 | |
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| Products | Furniture 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
[edit]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 | Types D (50) and E (20) electric tram bodies. 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] |
| 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] |
| 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 high speed on the 9.2 kilometres (5.7 miles) private right-of-way of the Glenelg line, and on some suburban lines |
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ A big furniture family Adelaide Advertiser 26 April 1910 page 6
- ^ a b Large fire at Edwardstown The Express & Telegraph 26 December 1913 page 1
- ^ Disastrous Fire The West Australian 27 December 1913 page 7
- ^ The Hills story Pandora.com, accessed 20 December 2024
- ^ a b c Wilson, Tom; Radcliffe, John; Steele, Christopher (2021). Adelaide's public transport – the first 180 years. Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743058855.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Drymalik, Chris (2024). "Glenelg Line passenger carriages - "260" type". Chris's Commonwealth Railways Information. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Victorian Railways No 20". Melbourne Tram Museum. 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Geelong 22". Trolley Wire. No. 135. Sutherland NSW: South Pacific Electric Railway Co-operative Society Limited. August 1971. p. 8. ISSN 0155-1264.
- ^ 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.