  In this paper we summarize the main properties of the ENACS (the ESO Nearby
Abell Cluster Survey), which was one of the ESO Keyprogrammes carried out in
the first half of the 1990's, and we discuss some recent work on the properties
of the galaxies in the rich clusters in the ENACS sample. We stress the
importance of the ENACS sample as a local, volume-limited sample of rich ACO
clusters, which in many respects can serve as a local calibration of the
properties of optically selected rich clusters. However, by itself the ENACS
has also provided several useful insights into the properties of a sample of
rich clusters, and of the galaxies in them.
  Here, we describe recent results on the properties of the galaxies in the
ENACS clusters: in particular their morphological types (inferred from the
spectrum) and their projected distribution. Combining the morphological data
with CCD photometry and internal velocity dispersions, we will study the
Fundamental Plane of early-type galaxies. We discuss some preliminary results
about the universality of the Fundamental Planes in a few ENACS clusters.
