Charles Stanford
The chest is a journeyman phenomenon. The shop owner with an established business would have a tool cabinet for his kit, the employees would have chests.

In today's terms, a tool chest would go into the back of a pickup truck, if necessary, in the same orientation it would have had in the shop - sitting on its bottom fully packed. A standing cabinet would have to be unpacked and laid down flat.

I think an essential accompaniment to a tool chest is a bench with a well and integral tool rack. Tools used constantly belong in the well (ruler and gauges), a favorite chisel or two in the rack along with a 10" tenon saw. Put 'em up at the end of the day if you care to. If a journeyman was let go, he could pack and be out of the shop in fifteen minutes.