Historical information

Repco Brabham Engines Pty Ltd, initially based at 81 Burnley Street, Richmond moved their entire engine program to 87 Mitchell Street, Maidstone in December 1964.

This site became the Repco Brabham Engine Works, responsible for, design, machining, assembly, testing and race spec development.

The Maidstone shop was small but closer to a precision engineering laboratory than a factory, but produced world beating engines.

The Maidstone works produced the entire family of Repco–Brabham V8 engines, including the RB620 (1966), RB740 / RB730 Series (1967) and later 4.2 – 5.0 litre sportscar engines.

The RB620 was the engine that powered Jack Bradham to his F1 1966 Driver’s and Constructors’ World Championship and the RB740 that powered Denny Hulme to his F1 1967 Constructors’ World Championship.

Significance

This small but world‑class engineering shop built the Repco–Brabham V8 engines that won the 1966 and 1967 Formula One World Championships, the only F1 engines ever built in Australia to win a world title.

The engineering workshop became one of the most important motorsport engineering locations in Australian's history.

Physical description

Digital black & white photograph