Peter

Clown in black hat and red jacket driving a 3-wheel car

Model: 503
Type: Cars
Topic: Circus & Clowns
Country of manufacture: Germany
Mechanism: Clockwork
Movement: Car has excentric wheels, it waves while moving in random direction, clown's body waves up and down and also laterally
Materials: Tin
Dimensions (LxWxH cm): 12x7x13
Condition: Excellent
Manufactured: 1946 – 1948

Research notes

there is variant with a nigger clown; both versions similar to the "Mixtum" EPL775 (1927-1941); toy made with the leftovers of many other toys; the logo is different from the conventional EPL, the horizontal trace of the "L" is missing. At the end of WWII, J. Ritcher was the owner (EP Lehmann died in 1934), and was allowed to resume production from 1946 to 1948, when the company was confiscated by the russians and all the dies were destroyed.