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Please can anyone tell me the correct gearbox for '53 G3LS? Is it the same CB gearbox on the War and post war bokes? Or is it the newer I think "GB" type?

Any pointer to Burman geabox numbers would be appreciated.

Thanks folks

I'm not an expert, but i think it would be a B52.
On the big singles, '51 was the last year for the CP Burman

That sounds about spot on.
And that 52 in B52 could have come from 1952, always a giveaway...

Of course, in Kenya, where Burmans possibly don't grow on trees,
any functioning gearbox is a 'correct' gearbox ??
They don't look all that different, after all.

This is a view of a Yesterdays sale bike recently - any of it look familiar ?
https://www.yesterdays.nl/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mastchless-1953-G3L-2508-2.jpg

And if you tell us that the local corner store has a stock of Burmans under the bench, I'll eat my words !
Especially if they are new, wrapped in greasepaper.

Hi Rohan...nope they sure don't grow on trees in Africa ....but after Idi Amin fell I did visit Uganda ( 1993) and the old AMC agent did indeed have boxes of things untouched in that paper! Going back to WW2.... I should have bought the whole shop. It ws as cheap as used napkins.

Yeah, it is the GB52 and that is the correct one shown in Rohans PIC....the Ariel one wont fit..Vincent Comet one, also I think may fit.... Panther used them but maybe they again had their own variation..the Burman factory was a busy one.... neither will the later AMC box which is much wider in cross section, so it's B52 Hunting I go!