  We report the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane (6dFGSv) catalogue that is used to
estimate distances and peculiar velocities for nearly 9,000 early-type galaxies
in the local (z$<$0.055) universe. Velocity dispersions are derived by
cross-correlation from 6dF V-band spectra with typical S/N of 12.9 \AA$^{-1}$
for a sample of 11,315 galaxies; the median velocity dispersion is 163
kms$^{-1}$ and the median measurement error is 12.9%. The photometric
Fundamental Plane (FP) parameters (effective radii and surface brightnesses)
are determined from the $JHK$ 2MASS images for 11,102 galaxies. Comparison of
the independent $J$- and $K$-band measurements implies that the average
uncertainty in $X_{FP}$, the combined photometric parameter that enters the FP,
is 0.013 dex (3%) for each band. Visual classification of morphologies was used
to select a sample of nearly 9,000 early-type galaxies that form 6dFGSv. This
catalogue has been used to study the effects of stellar populations on galaxy
scaling relations, to investigate the variation of the FP with environment and
galaxy morphology, to explore trends in stellar populations through, along and
across the FP, and to map and analyse the local peculiar velocity field.
