Angus Tait

Sir Angus Tait, KNZM, OBE (22 July 1919 – 7 August 2007) was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman. Angus Tait had a childhood fascination for electronics and during and after high school at Waitaki Boys' High School, he worked in a friend's (Kempton Collett) radio store. He served with the Royal NZ and also Royal Air Force instructing as a Second Lieutenant on radar in Britain, 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, now operating as Tait Radio Communications, Christchurch (New Zealand), with men who had decided to remain loyal and see him through; now his company is considered a world...