Since starting this thread, I bought several AC Gilbert booklets that had some info on TruModel. One is a 1927 Kelmet Catalog that shows most of the pages from the TruModel booklet that I have had for years. It looks like Kelmet had an agreement with TruModel to sell the hoist, the Derrick and the trolley unchanged from the TruModel Toys. I am guessing the later, AC Gilbert bought out Kelmet and TruModel. Both products were too costly for his business plan. He did include the tipping bucket and the clamshell from TruMode and the fenders, hood and steering from Kelmet. He had the hoist redesigned to use Erector parts and cost a great deal less. He dropped the Kelmet name, but used the TruModel name for the Erector sets that were sold through Sears and Roebuck. With the onset of the depression in 1929, he dropped about a hundred items in the various sets to reduce costs. He also stopped using the TruModel name.
That is the story as I have been able to piece it together. I would be grateful to anyone that can correct any errors in that story. Thank you.

• This reply was modified 6 months, 1 week ago by John Secord.