century in 1999. Issigonis was born on 18 November 1906 in the Ottoman port city of Smyrna, the only child of Constantine Issigonis and Hulda Prokopp...

Jonathan (2005). Alec Issigonis: The Man Who Made the Mini. Breedon Books Publishing. ISBN 1-85983-449-3. Nahum, Andrew (2004). Issigonis and the Mini. Icon...

– Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish author and poet (died 1954) 1906 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the mini car (died 1988) 1906...

Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915) 1988 – Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (born 1906) 1988 – Hamengkubuwono...

Motor Show, London, in October 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.6 million were manufactured in three series: the Series...

1979) Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991) November 18 Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British automobile designer (d. 1988) Klaus Mann, German...

Ingold (born 1996), American NFL player Alec Ingwersen (1941–2016), Australian rules footballer Alec Issigonis (1906–1988), Greek-British car designer...

last U.S. state. August 26 – The original Mini car, designed by Sir Alec Issigonis, is launched in England. August 30 – 1959 South Vietnamese legislative...

persuaded Alec Issigonis to rejoin BMC to create what became the Mini and the 1100, Austin/BMC's two most successful products. That Issigonis had the freedom...

Moulton, and first used on the 1962 BMC project ADO16 under designer Alec Issigonis, later to be launched as the Morris 1100. The system replaces the separate...

Technology Group in 2022). The original Mini Moke was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis and John Sheppard. The more rugged Mini Moke was an attempt to take...

is disputed. The original Moke was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis and John Sheppard. When Issigonis designed the Mini, he planned another vehicle to share...

in the early 1950s in vehicle engineering. The car was designed by Alec Issigonis among whose other designs were the Mini and Morris Minor. The Ambassador...

Jonathan (2005). Alec Issigonis: The Man Who Made the Mini. Breedon Books Publishing. ISBN 1-85983-449-3. Nahum, Andrew (2004). Issigonis and the Mini. Icon...

Laurence Pomeroy, John Polwhele Blatchley, Ian Callum, Colin Chapman, Alec Issigonis, Charles Spencer King and Gordon Murray. The inception of the British...

aluminium transaxle. This combination was very advanced at the time. Sir Alec Issigonis, designer of the BMC's Mini, had recently described the fitting of synchromesh...

synchromesh on all forward gears, which had been declared 'impossible' by Alec Issigonis of BMC Mini fame. The adoption to mass-production was successful, and...

upmarket variants of the latter two models. The designer of these cars, Alec Issigonis, was inspired by the Traction Avant's suspension, although the Morris...

Office project number 16) was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis. Following his success with the Mini, Issigonis set out to design a larger and more sophisticated...

Cooper-conceived Mini – introduced in 1961 as a development of the Alec Issigonis-designed British Motor Corporation Mini with a more powerful engine...

to gain a more manageable speed (for the time) of 72 mph (116 km/h). Issigonis' suspension featured the use of rubber cones as springs: the spring rate...

Leyland group, and the last production car designed by famed designer Alec Issigonis. It was the first car to be launched by British Leyland. Originally...

Significant engineers and automobile designers include Nikolas Tombazis, Alec Issigonis and Andreas Zapatinas. The most widely used symbol is the flag of Greece...

experimental rubber suspension which was tested on a Morris Minor. His friend Alec Issigonis heard of this work and together they designed a fluid and rubber suspension...

forming a double bed. Created by the same designer as BMC's Mini, sir Alec Issigonis – accountants had determined that the car had to use the same set of...

in the middle and could be used, on occasion, as a bench seat. Both Alec Issigonis and Pininfarina worked on its exterior. The car's technical internals...

Force officer (born 1897) Sir Peter Hunt, Army general (born 1916) Sir Alec Issigonis, car designer (born 1906, Ottoman Empire) 4 October – Margaret Lacey...

Isakson (1944–2021; aged 76), United States Senator from Georgia. Sir Alec Issigonis (1906–1988; aged 81), British-Greek car designer. Mary Jackson (1910–2005;...

(24 February 1922 – 29 March 2015) was a car designer who worked with Alec Issigonis on the Austin Mini and later on British Leyland's Metro, Maestro and...

Austin Mini was launched by the British Motor Corporation, designed by Alec Issigonis as a response to the first oil crisis, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the...