Alec Issigonis the Man Who Made the Mini - Brossura

Jonathan Wood

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ISBN 10: 1780910975 ISBN 13: 9781780910970

Casa editrice: DB Publishing, 2012

Riassunto

This is a biography about the British motor industry's most influential and controversial engineer, Sir Alec Issignois. Wood exposes a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal and corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role. THE COLLAPSE in 2005 of MG Rover marked the end of Britain's indigenous motor industry as a volume car manufacturer. Yet back in the 1960s its Longbridge-based British Motor Corporation predecessor dominated the market with the iconic Mini and stylish 1100. Both were the work, together with the legendary Morris Minor, of Sir Alec Issigonis, CBE, FRS, the British motor industry's most influential and controversial engineer. In this full-length biography, published to commemorate the centenary of its subject's birth, which falls in 2006, award-winning motoring historian Jonathan Wood chronicles the rise and fall of Issigonis, born in Turkey of Greek/Bavarian parentage, who arrived in Britain as a near-penniless refugee and became the most powerful automobile engineer in the land. His ingenious and effective designs had a deep, lasting influence on the evolution of the motor car and on the wider history of industrial design, and he deserves to be ranked with the other giants of the field like Ferdinand Porsche in Germany and Dante Giacosa in Italy. Wood's candid and meticulously researched account, which exposes Sir Alec's public and private faces, and is the product of some 30 years of research, is complemented by interviews conducted with many of Issigonis' former colleagues and friends, including: Ronald Barker, John Cooper, Jack Daniels, Christopher Dowson, Paddy Hopkirk, Spen King, Dr Alex Moulton, Dr Bernd Pischetsrieder, Lord Snowdon and Stuart Turner. The finished volume is a balanced view of a remarkable, immensely talented man, with a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal and corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role.

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L'autore:

Motoring historian Jonathan Wood is well qualified to chronicle the life and career of Alec Issigonis. A founder member of the staff of Classic Car magazine, his Wheels of Misfortune, The Rise and Fall of the British Motor Industry received accolades on both sides of the Atlantic, having been accorded the Guild of Motoring Writers' Montagu Trophy and the US-based Society of Automotive Historians' Cugnot Award. Wood's study of artist engineer Ettore Bugatti likewise received the SAH's coveted prize and he has also written A Portrait of Farnham, an architectural history of his one-time home town of Farnham, Surrey. Wood has some 35 books to his credit and he was responsible for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' centenary history, published in 1996 to commemorate the British motor industry's 100th anniversary. Married with a family of three, Jonathan lives in Ludlow, Shropshire.

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• Editore: DB Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1780910975
• ISBN 13: 9781780910970
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224