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    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...
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    Mini (category Issigonis vehicles)
    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...
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    Morris Minor (category Issigonis vehicles)
    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...
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  • Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) 1988 – Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906) 1988 – Hamengkubuwono...
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  • 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...
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    Laurence Pomeroy, John Polwhele Blatchley, Ian Callum, Colin Chapman, Alec Issigonis, Charles Spencer King and Gordon Murray. The inception of the British...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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