WILDFOWL & MOTOR MUSEUM

Sussex has also been a centre for motor sport. Speed trials were held annually at Brighton and Bexhill, and Goodwood possesses a racing circuit, reopened in 1998. Cars have been built in Sussex too. In 1895 Magnus Volk, the Brighton inventor, built an experimental electric car. It never went into production, but his railway, the first electric railway in Britain, still operates on Brighton beach. In 1901, Lonsdale began building single cylinder cars at Hove. At Shoreham Harry Ricardo manufactured his famous engines and later the Dolphin car driven by a very early V8 engine.

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Bentley Wildfowl &

Motor Museum

Halland, Lewes

E.Sussex, BN8 5AF

01825 840573

01825 841451