Percy Tait (9 October 1929 – 17 November 2019) was an English professional motorcycle road racer and senior road tester for Triumph motorcycles, where...
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Paul Tait (footballer, born 1974), English striker for Northwich Victoria Percy Tait (1929–2019), British motorcycle road racer and tester Peter Tait (disambiguation)...
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participation on scrambles). A "race kit" was developed. Development rider Percy Tait tested a machine using the kit during the early part of 1969 and the Trident...
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engine difficulties and escaping oil covered the bike of Triumph employee Percy Tait and co-rider Steve Jolly who managed to finish in fifth place to winners...
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only British rider in the 1970 team until a seventh bike was built for Percy Tait. However a Honda CB750 ridden by Dick Mann won the race. Returning in...
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Bonneville T120 bikes achieved the first three places in the Thruxton 500. Percy Tait and co-rider Malcolm Uphill finished first, ahead of two other Triumph...
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Bonnevilles were ridden by World Champion Phil Read and works employee Percy Tait. Conditions were poor and Smith retired from the race at slippery Stowe...
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Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in the Ardennes, Triumph's factory tester Percy Tait led the world champion Giacomo Agostini for three laps and finished second...
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Daniel Urdich Honda 1970 Tom Dickie Paul Smart - Triumph Trident 1971 Percy Tait Ray Pickrell - Triumph Engineering 1972 Gérard Debrock Roger Ruiz - Honda...
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race car driver, plane crash. Sir Keith Sykes, 94, British anaesthetist. Percy Tait, 90, English motorcycle racer. Debbie Thompson, 77, American Olympic sprinter...
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Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle PC (21 March 1887 – 3 April 1958), styled Lord Eustace Percy between 1899 and 1953, was...
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250 cc Ian Richards 350 cc Ray McCullough 500 cc Martin Sharpe 750 cc Percy Tait 1975 250 cc Derek Chatterton 350 cc Charlie Williams 500 cc Mick Grant...
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to dirt tracks, ovals and road races. Percy Tait, oldest member of the British team at 42 and team captain. Tait had been a Triumph works racer and development...
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Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 3 December 2010. Tait, James. "Henry Percy, Fourth Earl of Northumberland (from the Dictionary of National...
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a borrowed Yamaha at Oulton Park following the breakage of his Kawasaki Tait used a Kuhn Norton for the second race at Brands Hatch after his factory...
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Peter Murphy Matchless 2 6 John Clark Matchless 1 7 Eric Jones Norton 8 Percy Tait Norton 9 Bill Collett Matchless 10 Morrie Low BSA 11 Bob Matthews Velocette...
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victories at the 1971 and 1972 Isle of Man TT races. Pickrell teamed with Percy Tait to win the 1971 Bol d'Or 24-hour endurance race. He died on 20 February...
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Hailwood 650cc BSA Lightning, 2nd Phil Read 650cc Triumph Bonneville, 3rd Percy Tait 650cc Triumph Bonneville." Accessed 2013-08-16 Motor Cycle, 7 July 1966...
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James powered by a tuned Triumph Tiger Cub engine, which he raced against Percy Tait who also had a Cub. Cooper had a long-standing association with motorcycle...
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Neville, 3rd Baron Neville by his wife Maud Percy (d. 1379), a daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick, Northumberland, by his wife Idoine...
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The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language. They, along with the Hawthornden Prize...
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Yamaha 350 - 8 - - - 9 - 5 26 Werner Pfirter Yamaha 350 7 - - - - - - 4 = Percy Tait Triumph 750 - 7 - - - - - 4 = Roberto Gallina Honda 750 - - 7 - - - -...
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900; Horrox 2004. Tait 1896, p. 401; Cokayne 1959, pp. 899–900; Horrox 2004. Tait 1896, p. 401; Cokayne 1959, p. 900; Horrox 2004. Tait 1896, p. 401; Cokayne...
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average circuit. At the 14-kilometer Circuit Spa-Francorchamps, only Percy Tait (Triumph) stayed in the same lap. Count Agusta had his own lodge at Monza...
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Bill Collett Matchless 23 Ret 9 0 46 Derek Powell Matchless 9 Ret 0 = Percy Tait Norton Ret 9 0 48 Jean-Pierre Bayle Norton 9 0 = Enrico Galante Norton...
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ninth place in the 250cc world championship. In 1969, he teamed with Percy Tait to win the Thruxton 500 endurance race for production (road-based) machines...
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twin-carburettor version of the 650 engine emerged. Triumph test rider Percy Tait hit 128 mph on a prototype Bonneville T120 at the Motor Industry Research...
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Bertarelli Kawasaki Ret 3 10 = Bill Smith Kawasaki / Yamaha 3 Ret 10 = Percy Tait Triumph / Seeley-Matchless Ret 3 10 19 Giuseppe Mandolini Moto Guzzi 3...
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Cowles-Matchless 4 8 = Ulfe Nilsson Seeley-Matchless 4 8 = Phil Read Ducati 4 8 = Percy Tait Seeley-Matchless 4 8 25 Ivan Carlsson Yamaha Ret Ret 11 6 Ret Ret Ret...
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Matchless 8 6 14 6 13 18 Angelo Bergamonti Paton 2 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 12 = Percy Tait Triumph Ret Ret 2 Ret Ret Ret 12 20 Karl Hoppe Metisse-URS / Seeley-URS...
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