page_title: Waggott Engineering
section_title: Championships
hierarchical_section_title: Waggott Engineering / Championships
caption_attribution_description: English: Centaur Waggott GT at Leyburn Historic Sprints, August 19, 2007. Photo by Graham Ruckert.
context_page_description: Waggott Engineering was an Australian automotive engineering company which gained fame for the engines which it produced for motor sport applications from the 1950s through to the 1970s.
  The company had its origins in a machine shop opened in 1948 by Merv Waggott. Initially concentrating on commercial refrigerator repairs and general engineering it later diversified into the production of after-market parts for automotive and motor sport applications. This was followed in the mid-1950s by the development and production of the Waggott TC engine. Although based on the six-cylinder Holden “Grey” motor it was extensively modified with twin overhead camshafts, a special crankshaft and three twin choke Weber carburettors. As fitted to the Centaur Waggot in which John French won the 1962 Australian GT Championship, the engine was producing 202 bhp, over three times the 62 bhp output of the standard Holden unit.
  The Waggott TC4V engine followed in 1968. This was developed from the four-cylinder Ford Cortina engine block with the addition of a new head design featuring twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder.
context_section_description: The following Australian motor racing championships were won with Waggott powered cars.
caption: The Waggott TC powered Centaur in which John French won the 1962 Australian GT Championship
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