page_title: Magnus Volk
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Magnus Volk / Career
caption_attribution_description: Magnus Volk, his son Bert, and his sister-in-law Deborah, in his electric dog cart, outside Volk's electric rail office in Madeira Drive.
context_page_description: Magnus Volk FII was a British inventor and pioneering electrical engineer.
  He is most notable for having built Volk's Electric Railway, the world's oldest operating electric railway.
context_section_description: Aside from the Volk's Electric Railway, he also built the unique, but short lived, Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway, together with its unusual Daddy Long Legs vehicle. He also built another, short-lived line, similar to the VER, in the pleasure grounds at Aston Hall, Birmingham.
  In 1887 he attracted attention in Brighton by building a three-wheeled electric carriage powered by an Immisch motor. In 1888 he built another electric car, this time a four-wheeled carriage which was made to the order of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, for which he was awarded an Order of Osmali, presented to Magnus by the Sultan in person whilst in Constantinople.
  Other projects of Magnus included inventing a fire-alarm system, early successful attempts at electricity in the home, telecommunications and installing electricity to the Royal Pavilion for the first time.
caption: Magnus Volk on his electric dog cart, 1897
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