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Steve.E wrote:
Lived with his mother was extremely witty and arrogant had an acid tongue and his favourite drink was the martini, hmmmmmmmmmmmm
My kind of guy :wink:
Happy birthday Alec
Steve

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happy birthday sir alec

thought about this today as i did a rather over enthusiastic slide in the austin 1300, while driving to the morris lowlight shed to drop off mini parts, his 3 greatest creations :D

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Monster Mini wrote:
Happy Birthday Sir Alec without him we would not be on this Great forum.....

I Knew there had to be a connection from Malta and the MINI.........

Cheers Monster Mini


Issy had a very bad time in Malta...as a displaced person after the bad guys took over the family factory in Smyrna they spent some time in camps where the Maltese failed to provide adequate food and shelter even tho they were paid to do so.

It is for this reason that the Tsigonias family (changed to Issigonis cos it sounded better!!) invoked their British connection and moved to the UK.

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sports850 wrote:
If you want to know more about sir Alec , I can highly reccomend this book , covers his entire life and the design period of the mini with a lot of his other projects etc .

Issigonis, the official biography , by Gillian Bardsley . Published 2005
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Some lucky person won a copy of this today,at our Sir Alec Birthday Bash.
Over 100 Minis/Morris and one lonely Nomad turned up :D

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