Replying to Tony Galloway's post <It's curious that this class of car was
the only one that wasn't adopted by the other two SEC systems when Geelong
was closed. They were no more primitive than the other four wheelers, just
bigger>, Mal Rowe responded..

<It's my guess (and that's all it is) that one reason these cars were not
considered for transfer to the other provincial tramways was because of
their straight sill construction - resulting in very high step heights>.

Another possible explanation is that only 4 of the 8 Pengelleys were ever
converted to one-man operation in Geelong obliging the SEC to use these with
a crew of 2 in Ballarat/Bendigo, or undertake the conversion themselves.

With the future of the remaining SEC Provincial tramways uncertain, the
expense of crewing single-truck cars with driver and conductor, or the cost
of converting them to one-man operation, was probably viewed as being
uneconomical.

Roger Greenwood

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