384 - Probably Kovap, Lanz Bulldog D 4016, tinplate toy tractor with clockwork and key, rubber tyres

Probably Kovap, Lanz Bulldog D 4016, tinplate toy tractor with clockwork and key, rubber tyres Tinplate, plastic and rubber, tinplate toy tractor modelled on the Lanz Bulldog D 4016, probably Kovap, Náchod, Czech Republic, lithographed tinplate, blue bonnet with white decorative lines, blue mudguards, at the front red round emblem "LANZ" and below it "40", on the side "LANZ" and in script "Bulldog" on a red stripe, back of the seat backrest with "LANZ" in an oval field, black exhaust pipe, blue flywheel disc on the left, two headlights with silver-coloured rims, grey three-spoke steering wheel, red seat on black backrest, floor plate with grey and white diamond pattern, gear indicator "0", "1", "2" and "3" on a red field with gear lever, hand lever, at the rear coupling pin on a chain, four wheels with rubber tyres, large treaded tyres at the rear with red rims and blue hubs, small wheels at the front with red rims, clockwork wound at the right rear wheel, key present, good condition, 10x15.5x8.5 cm (HxLxW). The Lanz Bulldog was the tractor series of Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim, an agricultural machinery factory founded in 1870; its first type of 1921 went back to a crude oil engine with hot-bulb ignition designed by Fritz Huber, a single-cylinder two-stroke. The D 4016 with 40 hp was introduced in 1957 and was the last Bulldog design; in 1956 John Deere had acquired the majority of shares in Lanz, and in 1960 Bulldog production ended with the renaming as John Deere Lanz AG. Clockwork tinplate toy tractors have been part of the range of the Czech manufacturer Kovap since the 1950s; the firm was founded in 1946 by the Sedlák brothers as a tin printing works, took over tools of the former tinplate toy manufacturer CKO Kellermann in the 1980s and has produced licensed models of well-known tractor brands since 1998. The Lanz Bulldog 4016 model is made to a scale of 1:25.