Steering, brake fade

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by rob love

CGB is commonly used on Canadian parts which were slightly redesigned from their UK counterparts. It will have nothing to do with Girling, but is more likely to mean Canadian Great Britain.

From another Canadian manual explaining the part numbers prefixes (in this case 40mm guns):

CGB...a) Parts re-designed to suit Canadian production methods not interchangeable with UK couterparts

b) Also, in some cases, these code letters have been utilized in regrouping stores to simplify accounting and storage. In such cases interchangeability will be readily appreciated by a comparison of columns.....

My memory lapsed when writing that post, GB is the prefix of Girling component part numbers, just double checked one of their own catalogues. Having worked on the brakes of a British made Carrier, they are marked just GB as I would expect. Nothing to do with Gt. Britain as such.