John Sheppard (24 February 1922 – 29 March 2015) was a car designer who worked with

Alec Issigonis Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of t ...

on the

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and later on British Leyland's

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and Montego. He also designed the body for the

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20141021124608/http://www.miniworld.co.uk/features/miniworld-features/436-issigonis-and-the-9x-projects *http://oxfordbusinesspark.com/news/legendary-car-designer-honoured-oxford-business-park 1922 births 2015 deaths British automobile designers People from Birmingham, West Midlands {{Automobile-bio-stub