Geelong Pengelleys
  Roger Greenwood

Another cause of the Pengellys not be re-used after closure of Geelong, but
less easy to quantify, may have been a disinclination to use radial axle
trucks on the inferior-quality Ballarat & Bendigo tracks.

Experience with three Launceston trams using this type of truck on rails
past their use-by date was that they constantly hunted.

Whilst radial axle trucks may have been satisfactory on the well-maintained
Geelong lines, and also in Melbourne, the prospect of them running on tracks
put down by the Electric Supply Company of Victoria in 1905/7, and
re-furbished by the SEC in 1934 for a design life of only 15 years, may have
ruled them out.

Roger Greenwood

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