Malcolm also produced a whole range of Phasar machines powered by engines from the Honda Goldwing and VT500, Moto Guzzi V50 and Convert, Z13, and Yamaha liquid-cooled 350s. The later machines included several with Suzuki GS engines, both chain and shaft drive, a Honda VF750 powered machine and one with a Kawasaki Z1300 6-cylinder engine. These later Quasars were fitted with motorcycle engines and several also had a Bob Tait-designed hub centre steering system, as did some of Malcolm's Phasars. Only 21 Reliant engined Quasars were produced, but Newell went on to build several more in his own workshop at Field Cottage, in Heddington. When Romarsh collapsed, John Malfoy bought the remaining parts and assembled several more machines, and Malcolm Newell independently made at least one more from parts. All five vehicles were sold by December 1981, and a further batch of ten was prepared starting in August. ![]() In 1980, John Malfoy, who had originally designed the Quasar's unique fluorescent rear light, persuaded his employers, Romarsh, of Calne, to manufacture five Quasars under licence from Wilson Brothers. Between December 1976 and October 1979, they only produced a total of seven vehicles. Wilson kept the rights to the machine, although Ken did all the work on it in his own time.Īlthough they had launched a publicity campaign to gain interest in the bike, even after they began to receive enquiries Wilson Brothers did not provide enough funds for production to meet demand. The first production Quasar was sold in December 1976, having been built by Ken and Malcolm at Wilson Brothers of Bristol, where Ken was employed full-time. The global properties of 4C 34.47 do not differ from other giant (old) FR2 radio sources: it is a slowly expanding low-luminosity radio source.Broadcaster Jane Omorogbe in a Quasar History Īfter his previous idea for a trike named the "Revolution" failed, forcing him to close his motorcycle shop called "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in Devizes, Wiltshire, Malcolm Newell met Ken Leaman while on holiday in Scotland, and the two combined forces to design and build the first Quasar prototype. Seen under a small aspect angle the radio source is large, but not excessively large. The measured small depolarization asymmetry nevertheless agrees with its inferred orientation.Ĭonclusions: All data for this giant radio source agree with its preferred orientation as predicted within the unification scheme for powerful radio sources. The radio polarization properties indicate that this giant source has largely outgrown the depolarizing halo that is generally associated with the host galaxies of powerful radio sources. Assuming an intrinsically symmetric two-sided jet structure the radio source jet axis must be at least 33° away from the sky plane, that is within 57° from the line of sight. Results: Quasar 4C 34.47 displays a straight one-sided jet, measuring a record length of 380 kpc in its double-lobed radio structure. ![]() Methods: The giant double-lobed radio source 4C 34.47, which is associated with quasi-stellar object B1721+343, is mapped at arcsecond scale resolution, and the data are subsequently analyzed within the context of current models for extragalactic radio sources. Unification models for active galactic nuclei, AGN, predict that all quasars (radio sources associated with quasi-stellar objects) should be at a substantial angle with the sky plane.Īims: We test the predictions of the orientation unification model with the morphological and polarization properties of a giant quasar. Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 78496 reviews)
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