Steve,

Actually, V&B made at least their model 805 with round sides. I have one
that exactly like a round side Bedrock, but without any casting marks,
and with the twisted lateral. George Langford could perhaps confirm if
the 905 was also make in a round sided version.

That would be my guess.

Regards,

Jim

>    It appears Stanley had a thing for milling off castings to remove
>    writing they no longer wanted to be there. Assuming Ted's is not
>    milled, maybe they got it right for once and made a run of Bedrocks
>    for a hardware store and removed all the writing from the patterns?
>
>    Vaughn and Bushell planes are marked "Dropped Forged" and I think
>    they may have only been made with square sides.
>
>Regards, Steve