Details
A Distler British-market clockwork 'Q-Car' Police Van
'Essdee Trade Mark', red lithographed tinplate with yellow and black lining, bodywork in the form of unmarked delivery van, spring catch on roof actuating drop sides and roof aerial, drop-sides opening to reveal British policeman, two armed with heavy machine guns and four with truncheons, registration XL3217 --9¾in. (25cm.) long, circa 1930 (G, roof F, wheel treads worn)
'Essdee Trade Mark', red lithographed tinplate with yellow and black lining, bodywork in the form of unmarked delivery van, spring catch on roof actuating drop sides and roof aerial, drop-sides opening to reveal British policeman, two armed with heavy machine guns and four with truncheons, registration XL3217 --9¾in. (25cm.) long, circa 1930 (G, roof F, wheel treads worn)
Literature
See Autos-Motorräder, Rudger Huber, Battenberg Verlag, 1988, p.59, for van derived from similar pressing