HZ123: On another note at LHR in 1970 on the North side were 2 Brits parked up I remember them so well and were they 'North East Ailines'
BKS Air Transport (of fond memory) obtained some ex-BOAC 102s to replace their Ambassadors, notably on the LHR-Newcastle run. As a spotter at NCL I watched the first one arrive – the biggest aircraft ever to grace NCL at that time – and as BOAC employee I had my first-ever staff travel trip in one (I actually got bumped off the first flight I tried – they had a seat for me but no weight available for my bag).
BKS became Northeast. It, along with Cambrian, were absorbed into the BEA family and were given similar colour schemes, Northeast was yellow and Cambrian an unusual shade of purple.
Even on the one-hour trip to Newcastle the elderly Brit was an ordeal, with a very intrusive vibration-noise cycle. Throttling back at top of descent came as a blessed relief.