Magnus Volk

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Magnus Volk (1851-1937 in Brighton) was a British electrical engineer who built Volk's Electric Railway. He was the son of a German clockmaker and lived at 38 Dyke Road in Brighton. The house has now been renumbered to 8 Arundel Road. In 1888, he built an electric car.[1]


Magnus Volk had a son called Conrad who wrote a biography of his father.

Volk is buried at St Wulfran's churchyard in Ovingdean near Brighton.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Georgano, G.N. Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930. (London: Grange-Universal, 1985).

[edit] References

  • Conrad Volk: Magnus Volk of Brighton. London & Chichester: Phillimore, 1971.

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