Alec Issigonis the Man Who Made the Mini

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.