Originally posted by DMS:
<snip> I think that Pexto is a trade name for Peck, Stow, and Wilcox, but I'm not sure. Any leads would be appreciated, thanks.
Dave
You are correct, I'm not sure of the date they adopted the Pexto trademark but it was after they had become well established. A good place to look for links to all sorts of old tools resources on the web is The Electronic Neanderthal: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~alf/en/en.html
They have links there to every site I could tell you about and dozens I've never visited. There's also alt.rec.woodworking it's a bit heavy on the power toys set but a few 'Neaderthals' can be still be found.