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. The company had a factory on South Road, Edwardstown.
On 25 December 1913, much of the factory was destroyed by fire, except for the railway carriage and tram construction facilities.
In 1954, the premises were purchased and occupied by the Hills Hoists company to manufacture rotary clothes lines.

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 for trams and railway passenger cars, including the following:
YearBuyerQtyProduct
1910–1912Municipal Tramways Trust70Bodies for types D and E 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.
1912–1913South Australian Railways11Bodies for use on the Holdfast Bay railway line
1912–1914South Australian Railways25Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars
1913Victorian Railways8Tram bodies for the St Kilda to Brighton Beach tramway
1916Commonwealth Railways4Bodies for D class dining cars
1921–1929Municipal Tramways Trust81Bodies for 50 type F trams and 31 of their steel-framed F1 variant
1923–1924South Australian Railways10Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars
1924–1925State Electricity Commission of Victoria8Bodies for Geelong system trams
1929Municipal Tramways Trust30Bodies for 30 type H interurban-style trams to run on the newly electrified Glenelg tram line