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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon VOIGT, Carl Gustav Wilhelm Born: Engineer The principal of W VOIGT ENGINEERS AND COPPER WORKS was born in Luckenwalde on the outskirts of Berlin Germany on 21 August 1867, one of nine children. His father A E Voigt owned a well - known factory in the town. After his father?s death he came to South Africa arriving in Cape Town on 5 April 1893 with his wife, four month - old baby, machinery and household effects. He established himself in Paarl and laid the beginnings of the engineering firm W VOIGT ENGINEERS AND COPPER WORKS which at its height employed 150 men. (Cape Vintage Engine, Number 21. September 2010: pg 12. accessed July 2015)