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	Sir Alec Issigonis (1906-1988) was a designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the "Mini" in ...
		Sir Alec Issigonis (1906-1988) was a designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the "Mini" in 1959.
		He was born Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis in Smyrna, Turkey, and came to live in the UK in 1923, taking up a course of study at Battersea Polytechnic in London.
		He worked for the Morris company on the design of the Morris Minor, which was produced from 1948 until 1971, and launched the Mini a decade later.
	www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/Alec_Issigonis.htm (120 words)

	Alec Issigonis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (November 18, 1906–October 2, 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959.
		Issigonis (nicknamed "The Greek god" by his contemporaries) was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and was awarded a knighthood in 1969.
		Sir Alec officially retired from the motor industry in 1971, although he continued working until shortly before his death from Parkinson’s Disease in 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Alec_Issigonis (945 words)

	Alec Issigonis
		Sir Alec Issigonis (1906-1988) was a designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the "Mini" in 1959.
		He was born Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis in Smyrna, Turkey, and came to live in the UK in 1923, taking up a course of study at Battersea Polytechnic[?] in London.
		He worked for the Morris company on the design of the Morris Minor[?], which was produced from 1948 until 1971, and launched the Mini a decade later.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alec_Issigonis.html (100 words)

	WEST SUSSEX MINI OWNERS CLUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alec Issigonis was born in 1906 in Smyrna (Izmir), to a Bavarian mother.
		Issigonis was recruited to help develop the back axle, although he tried hard to show that his experience of suspensions should be exploited.
		Issigonis was tiring of the company politics caused by the merger, and accepted an invitation by Alvis to design a sports saloon from scratch.
	home.btconnect.com /nealebateman/nrb/wsmoc/issi.htm (848 words)

	Designing the Biggest small car
		From his racing experience, Sir Alec was aware of how unstable this layout was at high speed, especially in crosswinds where the rear weight distribution would cause the car to veer off course.
		Sir Alec initially demanded wheel rims of only eight inches but, when it was pointed out by the horrified engineers that there would be no room for the brakes, he compromised on ten inches.
		Sir Alec was still locked into the idea that the Mini was an everyman's car and resisted the idea.
	members.tripod.com /~miniwww/alec.htm (1541 words)

	Sir Alec Issigonis - Wikicars
		Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS (November 18, 1906–October 2, 1988) was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) in 1959.
		Issigonis went into the motor industry as an engineer and designer working for Humber and did some motor racing during the 1930s and 1940s.
		Sir Alec officially retired from the motor industry in 1971, although he continued working until shortly before his death from Parkinson’s Disease in 1988 in his house at Edgsbaton, England.
	wikicars.org /es/Sir_Alec_Issigonis (909 words)

	Alec Issigonis interview
		Sir Alec Issigonis: an insight into the great man, from an interview originally published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the Mini.
		Issigonis on the left is standing next to BMC works driver Timo Makinen who had triumphed in that years Monte Carlo rally in a Mini Cooper 1275S.
		Many of Lord Stokes' team felt that Alec Issigonis was to blame for BMC's decline, and this is borne out by the fact that at least 4.3 million of the five million front wheel drive cars produced from 1959 to 1971 were Minis and ADO16 1100/1300 models.
	www.austin-rover.co.uk /issiinterf.htm (1782 words)

	Mini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Issigonis, who had been working for Alvis, had been recruited back to BMC in 1955 and, with his skills in designing small cars, was a natural for the task.
		Issigonis is said to have sized the resulting storage bins to take a bottle of his favourite Gordon's Gin.
		Issigonis was initially reluctant to see the Mini in the role of a performance car - but after John Cooper appealed to BMC management, the two men collaborated to create the Mini Cooper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minis (5350 words)

	Sir Alec Issigonis
		Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was born on the 18th November 1906 in the Greek city of Smyrna, which today is called Izmir and is a part of Turkey.
		Issigonis' family lived a comfortable life in Smyrna until the city was invaded by the Turks in 1922.
		Issigonis had to use an engine that was already available from the BMC range, and the car had to be ready for production in two years.
	www.minibits.com /issigonis.htm (457 words)

	Alec Issigonis
		Alec Issigonis (as he was more commonly known) was one of the most colourful car designers of modern times.
		Alec's father died en route in Malta, and the family arrived in England almost penniless in 1922.
		In the early 1940s, Issigonis began to work on the design of the car, which was to become the Morris Minor.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /text/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=647&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=42 (379 words)

	Minis For Sale
		Sir Alec Issigonis designed both the Morris Minor and the Morris Mini-Minor (the Mini), clearly demonstrating his time honoured automotive philosophy - to provide a vehicle that carried the greatest payload in the smallest practical space.
		In addition to this policy, the new engineering principles Issigonis incorporated into them ensured that they would look different from their rivals.
		Sir Alec Issigonis also designed the suspension of the Morris Eight, and therefore it is hardly surprising that the car was lauded for it's suspension and ride.
	www.minisforsale.com /sir_alex.htm (284 words)

	Li'l Hurricane - Who's to Blame? or a bit of History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Issigonis left what was by then BMC for four years before returning to the fold in 1956 to start work on a new mid-range family car.
		Issigonis was now in charge, and there were certain aspects of the project that would be non-negotiable.
		Sir Alec was reported to have said, "When I design my cars, they are styled so that they couldn't be obsolescent".
	members.tripod.com /lilhurricane/blame.html (1388 words)

	Alec Issigonis / Designing Modern Britain - Design Museum Exhibition : Automotive Designer (1906-1988) - ...
		Issigonis’ grandfather and father were both engineers, but as his father died when Alec was a teenager his mother, Hulda, the daughter of a Bavarian brewer became the pivotal figure in his life.
		The mission given to Issigonis and his team at BMC was to combat the increasing imports of inexpensive bubble cars from Germany and Italy.
		Issigonis may not have invented the formula of the mini-car, but he became the creator of by far the most famous example of the type.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/alec-issigonis (1998 words)

	European Automotive Hall of Fame
		Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was not influenced by cars in his infancy.
		Issigonis, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his success, was arrogant and highly opinionated.
		Issigonis was offended: "I am an engineer," he said.
	www.autonews.com /files/euroauto/inductees/issigonis.htm (480 words)

	Issigonis Sir Alec - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Issigonis Sir Alec - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Guinness, Sir Alec (1914-2000), English actor, born in London.
		Douglas-Home, Sir Alec (1903-1995), British statesman and Prime Minister (1963-1964).
	au.encarta.msn.com /Issigonis_Sir_Alec.html (110 words)

	Mini Space - Mini Heroes
		Sir Alec remained a consultant for Austin Rover into the 1980s, and died in 1988 at the age of 82.
		It was his job to turn Issigonis' pencil-sketches into reality; Daniels would often ahve been found charging around the Oxfordshire countryside testing prototype Minis until the small hours of the morning.
		Cooper's links with BMC chairman Sir George harriman was the key to the sporting Minis, but Cooper still had to persuade the BMC board and do the hard work.
	www.minispace.co.uk /mini/heroes/heroes.htm (619 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Mini - Going Fine Since 1959
		Sir Alec Issigonis (1906 - 1988) was instructed by British Motor Corporation (BMC) boss Leonard Lord to design a small, compact, economical car so as to rid Britain's roads of the ugly (in Lord's eyes) European-made bubble cars which were rampant at the time.
		Alec Issigonis joined the team at Morris Motors in 1936 at the age of 30.
		With the blessing of Sir Alec Issigonis, the car was soon modified and re-engineered for saloon car racing and rallying.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A570430 (905 words)

	Andrew's Mini Web Pages - Sir Alec Issigonis
		Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis was not influenced by cars in his infancy.
		Issigonis, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his success, was arrogant and highly opinionated.
		Issigonis was offended: "I am an engineer," he said.
	www.miniweb.org.uk /mainPages/issigonis.html (480 words)

	Making the Modern World - Sir Alec Issigonis
		Issigonis' inventive solution was the Mini, developed in 18 months (in the usual autocratic Issigonis manner 'there was no delegation - we had to do things his way' recalled a team member).
		Issigonis combined engine and gearbox in the bonnet so that they shared an oil supply, and introduced tiny wheels, thus saving precious space.
		Issigonis continued to work for the company until the Leyland takeover of 1968; the new committee-based approach to design that came with it did not agree with Issigonis, and he left to work on his own projects shortly before retirement.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0016 (354 words)

	Charles Ware's Morris Minor Centre - A History of the Morris Minor
		That both were designed by the same man is no coincidence, and indeed Sir Alec Issigonis is one of the very few car designers whose name is recognised by the man or woman in the street and not just by enthusiasts or fellow engineers.
		The products of Sir Alec's genius have had a profound and highly beneficial influence on the British motor industry, so it is hardly surprising that it is his first car, the Morris Minor of 1948, which has become the subject of this proposal for a long-life car.
		Additionally, Issigonis had specified uniquely small wheels for the new car, two or even three inches less in diameter than the average, giving it more of a 'big-car' look and doing much to enhance its proportions generally.
	www.morrisminor.org.uk /minor_his.htm (1290 words)

	Sir Alec Issigonis
		Alec Issigonis was born in Smyrne, Turkey, in the year 1906.
		Issigonis worked as the engineer director at Austin Rover until 1971 when he retired.
		Sir Issacc Issigonis passed away on October the second, 1988.
	www.mini-maniac.com /Alex.html (148 words)

	Alec Issigonis interview
		Sir Alec Issigonis: an insight into the great man, from an interview originally published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the Mini.
		Sir Alec Issigonis still has some interesting ideas on car design.
		Sir Alec, the designer who refuses to give up even though way past retirement age, is now a design consultant with an experimental workshop.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/way/yuw18/austin-rover/issiinterf.htm (1126 words)

	Mini Cooper's History.....Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sir Alec Issigonis' original Mini of 1959 set new standards in design and engineering.
		Issigonis produced his masterpiece as an answer to the European fuel crisis of the late 1950s.
		Issigonis was challenged to produce a car four feet wide by four feet high and 10 feet long that would seat four adults in comfort and take their luggage to boot.
	www.motorsportscenter.com /printer_24.shtml (447 words)

	Sir Alec Issigonis
		Ganze drei Anläufe benötigte Mini-"Erfinder" Sir Alec Issigonis, um sein Mathematik-Examen zu bestehen.
		Sir Alec Issigonis' selbstgestecktes Ziel war, ein Auto zu entwickeln, das allen anderen seiner Klasse - und grösseren - fahrtechnisch überlegen war.
		Er traf Issigonis erstmals bei einem Rennen 1946.
	www.prignitz.de /mini/Geschichte/sir-alec.html (665 words)

	Telegraph \| Motoring \| Car Gourmet's Dictionary: I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (Nov 18 1906-Oct 4 1988, knighted in 1969) - the creator of the humble Mini (Aug 26 1959-Oct 4 2000) - had a Rolls-Royce of a name.
		Born in Turkey to a Greek father and a German mother, the teenage Issigonis was fiercely determined to be an engineer and came to England in the early 1920s to study at the Battersea Technical Institute in London.
		What to say about Sir Alec Issigonis: "By the way, I ought to mention that he was also responsible for the Morris Minor.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2002/12/20/emrgorm21.xml (485 words)

	Issigonis celebration rally - 4Car News from Channel 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A rally will be held on Sunday 15th October at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Sir Alec Issigonis, the engineer behind ground-breaking cars such as the Morris Minor and the Mini.
		Owners of cars designed by Issigonis are invited to attend: "If you have an Issigonis car, please come and join us to honour the great man", says organiser John Bishop.
		The Warwickshire museum is planning the largest meeting ever of Issigonis-designed cars; all are welcome, from the Austin 1100 to the Morris Minor, and including foreign-market models and non-production designs.
	www.channel4.com /4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=14849 (188 words)

	MotoringFile » Archive » Special Rally in Honor of Sir Alec Issigonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To mark the centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s most celebrated car designers, Sir Alec Issigonis, the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, is organising one of its largest rallies to date on Sunday 15 October.
		Issigonis was the mastermind behind two of the most important British cars of the twentieth century; first the Morris Minor and then the Mini, which became a national icon and was voted this year as one of the top ten British icons on BBC2’s Culture Show.
		Drivers of Issigonis cars will gain free entry to the show where dedicated parking will be available to them.
	motoringfile.com /2006/07/12/special-rally-in-honor-of-sir-alec-issigonis (647 words)

	Sir Alec Issigonis - Wikicars
		Demosthenis's son (Alec's father) Constantine Issigonis (Κωνσταντίνος Ισηγόνης), was born, with British nationality, in Smyrna in 1872.
		Issigonis (nicknamed "The Greek god" by his contemporaries) was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and was awarded a knighthood in 1969.
		This page was last modified 15:36, 12 January 2007 by red_marquis86@yahoo.com.
	wikicars.org /en/Alec_Issigonis (901 words)

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