page_title: Walter Hassan
section_title: Jaguar
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Hassan / Jaguar
caption_attribution_description: 1955 Jaguar XKD Jaguar XK6 engine From the Ralph Lauren collection on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Photo taken in 2005. Source: Photo by User:Sfoskett
context_page_description: Walter Thomas Frederick "Wally" Hassan OBE, C.Eng., M.I. Mech.E. was a distinguished UK automotive engineer who took part in the design and development of three very successful engines: Jaguar XK, Coventry Climax and Jaguar V12, as well as the ERA racing car.
context_section_description: In 1938 he joined SS Cars Ltd, later Jaguar Cars, as development engineer at Coventry. When the war started (1939) he moved to Bristol and worked on aero engine development for the Bristol Engine Company. At the end of the war he returned to Coventry to continue to work with Bill Heynes on what became the XK engine.
  This engine remained in production with various displacements from 1948 until 1992.
  This XK engine powered the winning car at Le Mans in 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, and 1957.
caption: XK engine in a D-type Jaguar 1955
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