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.A big furniture family Adelaide Advertiser 26 April 1910 page 6 The company had a factory on South Road, Edwardstown.Large fire at Edwardstown The Express & Telegraph 26 December 1913 page 1
On 25 December 1913, much of the factory was destroyed by fire, except for the railway carriage and tram construction facilities.Disastrous Fire The West Australian 27 December 1913 page 7
In 1954, the premises were purchased and occupied by the Hills Hoists company to manufacture rotary clothes lines.The Hills story Pandora.com, accessed 20 December 2024
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:
YearBuyerQtyProduct1910–1912 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.1912–1913 South Australian Railways 11 Bodies for use on the Holdfast Bay railway line 1912–1914 South Australian Railways 25Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars1913 Victorian Railways 8 Tram bodies for the St Kilda to Brighton Beach tramway 1916 Commonwealth Railways 4 Bodies for D class dining cars (Trans-Australian Railway) 1921–1929 Municipal Tramways Trust 81Bodies for 50 type F trams and 31 of their steel-framed F1 variant1923–1924 South Australian Railways 10Bodies for end-and-centre-loading passenger cars1924–1925 State Electricity Commission of Victoria 8 Bodies for Geelong system trams1929 Municipal Tramways Trust 30 Bodies for 30 type H interurban-style trams to run on the newly electrified Glenelg tram line
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 foregroundPengelley 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 private right-of-way of the Glenelg line, and on some suburban lines Notes
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