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...

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...

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...

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

Laurence Pomeroy, John Polwhele Blatchley, Ian Callum, Colin Chapman, Alec Issigonis, Charles Spencer King and Gordon Murray. Motorcars came into use on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

day in series production, were the Morris 800cc side valve engine by Alec Issigonis in 1947 originally destined for the Morris Minor, and the Ferguson 2...

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...

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

(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...

room for a vehicle of such a compact outer dimensions, a legacy of Sir Alec Issigonis who strived for increased cabin space on a small footprint as witness...

player Alec Ingwersen (1941–2016), Australian rules footballer Alec Issigonis (1906–1988), Greek-British car designer Alec Jackson, several people Alec James...

in 1989. The 16 had no direct competitors until the arrival of the Alec Issigonis designed Austin Maxi in 1969, but the Austin Maxi was not a strong seller...

Seoul Olympic Games, as the games come to a close. Car designer Sir Alec Issigonis, who designed the Mini and Morris Minor, dies aged 81 at his home in...

and Giugiaro. On prominent automotive figures, Cumberford described Alec Issigonis, who received a knighthood "in recognition of his engineering genius...

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

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...

Peter Hunt, 72, head of the British Army, Chief of the General Staff. Alec Issigonis, 81, Ottoman-British automotive designer. Marco Galli, 31, Italian water...

of the Greek-Orthodox Archdiocese of America Hipparch Hipparchus Sir Alec Issigonis, British-Greek creator of the Mini car Eleni Konsolaki, archaeologist...

were only 64 street legal versions of the McLaren manufactured. Sir Alec Issigonis, the British car designer and engineer who created the Morris Minor...