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Does anyone know the approximate date of this G&B T-176-50? The number on the plate is about 26,000.

Thanks. Hope the picture worked.

Most pump companies made & offered the visible pumps into the '40's.

Sure wished my skins looked that nice! WOW

According to Gilber and Barker available records the T-176 was made between June of 1931 and December of 1938. There are no records available to determine what year your pump was made.

My records show that the pump was introduced in 1926, and I will go out on a limb and state that your pump was probably one of the first made, other than that....

Your pump is shown on page 160 of my Gas Pump Identification book and should you be interested in further information about your pump I would like to refer you to this page on my website: http://www.petrolianacollectibles.com/gb%20176.htm

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Jack Sim

Thanks. I'll say it is a 1930 to match my Packard.

By the way the skins were beat up and took me a lot of tinking with the hammer but they do look good now. This is the final fitting. It will get a very thin bondo skimcoat then paint.

Jack, I'm told my pump is a "dry hose" model because it has the Powell valve and a plain, bronze nozzle.

The nozzle has T-128-1 cast into it and no other markings. Is this a G&B nozzle? The valve came with the pump but the nozzle came from e-Bay.

Thanks.

I have asked DB to answer this question. The 176 was sold as a wet hose, but who know what they did to them after they left he factory.

Jack Sim

I have had G&B's that were dry hose w/ a weighted valve handle [cast G&B]. Earliest Patent date I have seen on a wet nozzle is 1926 by Buckeye.

Here's the handle.
Look closely at your nozzle. I seem to remember this particular nozzle either on eBay or here on Oldgas some time ago. IF it's the one I'm thinking of the numbers looked stamped or scratched in to me and not cast into the nozzle.
Ron

This was on e-Bay. The numbers are deeply cast in. It was $18 delivered. (Eat your hearts out.) And it is bronze.

The ears at the base of the nozzle exactly fit the place at the bottom of the front door of the pump. When the door is locked shut the nozzle can't be removed.

I know this is an older thread, but our pump has this same valve on it, what was it for and what is meant by "dry hose" etc? Thanks!

Dry hose means that the end of the hose has a 'banana' nozzle instead of a trigger style. The pump has a gate valve to drop the fuel to the car so when you are finished there is NO gas left in the hose.
Ron
P.S. The information given in a previous post about the 'correct' nozzle for that pump is incorrect in my opinion. G & B would have put there NAME (logo) on a nozzle and not a model number such as T176 or T177.

Thanks that makes total sense know!!