A. Pengelley & Co

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]

A. Pengelley & Co

A fleet of new wagons displayed outside the factory on South Road, Edwardstown about 1918
Headquarters	South Road, Edwardstown , South Australia
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
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}