Angus Tait

Angus Tait

Infobox Person
name = Sir Angus Tait
birth_date = birth date|1919|6|26
birth_place = flagicon|New Zealand New Zealand
death_date = death date and age|2007|8|7|1919|6|26
death_place = flagicon|New Zealand New Zealand
occupation = Electronics innovator and businessman

Sir Angus Tait, KNZM, OBE, (26 July 1919 – 7 August 2007) was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman.

Angus Tait had a childhood fascination for electronics and left high school to work in a radio store. He served with the Royal Air Force in radar during World War II.

After the war, he designed and built mobile radio equipment, although his first company went into receivership. In 1969, he founded Tait Electronics Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand, considered a world leader in mobile radio. He had persisted in keeping his manufacturing base in New Zealand, with 95 per cent of production exported to 160 countries.

He was knighted in 1999, one of the "Bright Future" initiatives of the National Government. Presently, Tait's company employs some 850 people.

He died in 2007, at the age of 88. [http://www.stuff.co.nz/4156176a13.html Obituary] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.taitworld.com Tait Electronics Ltd.]
* [http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/1,412,1610,44,html/Team-Mourns-Great-Kiwi-Export-Icon Company press release regarding Sir Angus Tait's death]


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