Tait Electronics Ltd

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Knighted in 1999 for his contribution to electronics, company founder Sir Angus Tait lived and breathed radio communications all his working life. From school he went into a radio store, before joining the RNZAF at the outbreak of World War II. He was then transferred to the RAF in England where he worked on airborne radar. Returning to New Zealand in 1947 he was soon in business designing and assembling mobile radios. This small enterprise was the forerunner of Tait Electronics Ltd, formed in 1969, in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a staff of 12 people. This team produced a new generation of lightweight compact mobile radios that secured a majority share of the New Zealand market within a few years. An unswerving commitment to research and development enabled those initial products to be developed into the award-winning Miniphone series of mobile radios by the mid-1970s. By its tenth anniversary, Tait had launched a range of portable radios and base stations, and was exporting over 25% of its production. The first wholly-owned subsidiary was opened in the UK in 1979. The years immediately following saw further subsidiaries established in the USA and Singapore, and the first of many export awards. The new series of synthesized Miniphones and the new range of T300 base station equipment were released around this time.

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