You are TOTALLY welcome, John! [And thank YOU for the base, which started the whole thing] I had a great time, and have started through some of the literature I got from you; my "swap-meet buddy" will see stuff Sunday - and he did recall the Freeman four-wheel-drive truck, just as I predicted.
Your Porta-Band portable electric bandsaw by Porter-Cable was built under the May 6, 1952 patent by Elmer P. Sacrey, by the way. See
http://www.datamp.org/patents/displayPatent.php?pn=2596081&id=41915 for it.
The early Black & Decker patent I mentioned is 1,245,860, issued Nov. 6, 1917, to S. D. Black & A. G. Decker for an "Electrically Driven Tool" (pistol grip, trigger). They got another one, closely related, on Apr. 29, 1924: number 1,492,095, and the cord protector was #1,574,020, issued Feb. 23, 1926. If you have others only by date, let me know; I have compiled a list . . .
Thanks again, Sir, for a great afternoon!