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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MR3392 FROM RICHARD GOODACRE
We recently received the following information on this car from our reader Richard Goodacre, whose mother grew up in the village where former owner Dr Patrick Morris had practiced for over 30 years.
 
 

Quoting from Richard Goodacre's e-mails to VintageBentleys.org:
"My mother has recently found a newspaper cutting dated 27 March 1964 ((pictured above) with a photograph and short article about UL 8606.The photo shows the car in Dr Morris' yard at his home in Donington.


Dr Patrick Morris

Pat Morris was the doctor in the village my mother grew up in, and she well remembers him using UL 8606 as everyday transport during the 1960s. She says you could hear the Doctor wherever he was in the village due to the bark of the 4 cylinder engine through a large fishtail pipe out the rear, and she says the Doctor didn't go easy on the throttle either! My father also added that he could remember seeing the open tourer outside the Doctor's house in the early 1960s, and thinking to himself, why a man who could afford a new top of the range car insist in running around in this old Bentley! Dr Morris was extremely well liked and respected by all in the village and was apparently quite a character, and I guess the Bentley fitted in well with his individualism.

A mechanic in the village, who later went on to specialise in Frazer Nash cars used to look after Dr Morris' Bentleys, and a friend of mine remembers working for him at his garage around 1973, and changing the rear axle oil on UL 8606. Apparently it drained out like black treacle, and the Doctor joked that it was probably the original oil from the factory!

It is thought that Dr Morris sold UL 8606 around 1979, when he retired from practice and moved to Shropshire to be with his sons, Patrick(?) and William. He died in early 1996 and his sons would now be around 65 and 69 years of age, so nobody knows if they are still around. If they could be traced they may well have many more photos of the Bentleys.

Dr Morris also had a 4½ litre Saloon for winter use, but no details of this car are known. In fact, my mother was not aware of him having a second Bentley, but going through some of the newspaper cuttings, apparently he called them Olga and Oscar"

 
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