I'm surprised it doesn't read Vorsprung durch Technik on the side.

It's a cracking museum - I have a couple more pictures and some links on my blog today - and not a bad model shop if you need Humbrol paint or an Airfix kit.

Visit quickly though as the sale of the airport means that they might not be there after September. The new owners think that houses are more profitable than runways and they own the building the exhibits are housed in. This would be a great shame as there is a lot to see, it's well displayed and the volunteers who run it are lovely.

I'd be surprised if the font turned out to be anything other than Akzidenz Grotesk.

As already suggested, this font had already been in use for some time before the War.

Some people might think this font's name sounds a bit sinister - not according to the identifont.com website: http://www.identifont.com/show?FU. It appears that "Akzidenz" means something along the lines of "trade type" (or "jobbing / general purpose typeface") - while "Grotesk" merely means that this is a "sans serif" font.

As for "Helvetica", I believe it was derived from Akzidenz Grotesk some time in the 1950s - for the Haas type foundry - and originally called "Neue Haas Grotesk".

I gather that Arial is later still - (1980s?) - with a number of differences from both Akzidenz Grotesk and Neue Haas Grotesk / Helvetica.

Changing the subject, that museum sounds good.

It could also be interesting if someone were to start a "museums worth visiting" thread somewhere on RMweb. I'd imagine that, apart from being rather good, some of the recommendations might come as surprises to some people.