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By: 8th April 2020 at 07:00 Permalink
-The GC series of pumps are Type C, fitted to various Derwents, Nenes and Goblins. Dowty on the Goblin was replaced when the Goblin became the Mk.III, I believe.
I suggest that a 'GB' would be a Type B. Doesn't answer your question, but googling for Lucas Type B, I found one that might be it - for Hunter & Canberra it says.
Jet Art Aviation links from google don't work for me.
By: 8th April 2020 at 07:09 Permalink
-Here is another one to look at. It is type GB238-4C, so my logic says it is a Type B, just later than the one you have. Doesn't say what its from, but it gives an idea of what the whole unit looks like.
By: 9th April 2020 at 02:07 Permalink
-Thank Nicko,
I should explain that the piece we've got came as part of a donation of parts years ago. Some of them were sectioned for display/tuition purposes and others were not, the sectioned ones had tags on them, all in the same handwriting, describing the function of the part and the aircraft type it was from the non-sectioned parts had no tags and this is one of those.
We had a pair of identical fuel pumps one sectioned and one not which were from the Goblin 3 and a segment of those is a scaled up version of mystery piece. I'd found that Jetartaviationshop link and that's caused me to think we're talking Canberra and Avon for our item and your second link pretty much nails it that ours is an early version of said same.
Now I just need find somebody who has the parts book for the model Avon fitted to our Canberra B(I)12's or T.13's and hopefully that will give an exact illustration as it may well be that in our collection of parts some of the other pieces lurk!
Thanks for your help.
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By: Denys Jones - 7th April 2020 at 04:10 - Edited 7th April 2020 at 04:11
I am trying to get further information in relation to the body part of a fuel pump made by Lucas and bearing the model id of GB8
Seeing it's here in NZ and in part only that will limit the aircraft types it comes from (and we've already tentatively ruled out Vampire as our FB's had Dowty pumps and our T-birds had Lucas GC221-80 ones which this isn't from.
Any help appreciated but photos of whole unit would be especially nice.