-
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...
- priority. In
addition to
Issigonis, the team that
developed the Mini
included John
Sheppard (who had
worked with
Issigonis at Alvis), Jack
Daniels (who...
- and as
widely expected,
would not look
favourably on
Issigonis'
radical ideas.: 63
Issigonis'
overall concept was to
produce a practical, economical...
-
modern architecture". The Guardian. UK.
Retrieved 29
September 2007. "Alec
Issigonis,
Automotive Designer (1906–1988)".
Design Museum, London.
Archived from...
- it was with Alec
Issigonis's Mini,
introduced by the
British Motor Corporation in 1959, that the
design gained acclaim.
Issigonis incorporated the car's...
- 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...
-
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...
- working, with
Issigonis, on a
secret new
Morris car,
codenamed "Mosquito"
after the warplane. It was
launched in 1948 as the
Morris Minor.
Issigonis described...
- 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...
-
Significant engineers and
automobile designers include Nikolas Tombazis, Alec
Issigonis and
Andreas Zapatinas. The most
widely used
symbol is the flag of Greece...
