This little depot is based on a design found in a folder of glued-together promotional items that Lego offered to retailers in 1958, printed in the Netherlands. Contrary to later folders where text on buildings was either left blank or used common words like 'hotel' or 'garage', this folder also has images with Danish words in them. Like 'pakhus' which means 'warehouse' or 'storage depot' and which I decided to keep. It just looks appropriate, sounds nice and also fits neatly on the roof (the Dutch 'pakhuis' or English 'depot' wouldn't be symmetrical).
I had first found pictures of this folder on an auction page, but those weren't completely sharp. Then part of it turned up on a forum page, sharp enough to see the construction. And then I found the ever-useful Brick Fetish had it available all the time, here (there's tiny links at bottom right for the rest of the folder) and that that is where the image on the forum had been "borrowed" from (without so much as a credit of course).
My depot is completely constructed from parts in contemporary cellulose acetate as the original building in the folder was. I didn't glue it together of course. Despite having been bleached in hydrogen peroxide, the white bricks do show some differences in hue that must be due to slight variations in the pigments used at the time. A bit of warping is also visible here and there. And I decided to add a step in front of the door.
Using the depot for the removals trucks is slightly tricky on both floor plans, in that the trucks need to back up to the loading platform and so tend to stick out into the street while loading. That's probably why the folder shows a barrel truck loading from the side.
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