The Morris 1000 with Gresley ‘Streak’ appeal!
YOU might drive your Morris 1000 to Silverstone, the home of British motor racing, but would you ever be able to drive it around the circuit at a speed topping LNER A4 Pacific No. 4468 Mallard’s world record feat on Stoke Bank in 1938?
Definitely not, but without ducking the issue, car owner Phil Marsh has just bought the driver's seat from long-scrapped sister A4 No. 60001
Sir Ronald Matthews at auction, and plans to fit it inside his prized automobile as its driving seat.
Before it was renamed in March 1939, that locomotive was originally No. 4500 Garganey – after the species of migratory dabbling duck, a smaller cousin of the mallard, so who knows…