How tatty those apron vans look- any airline would be terrified of reputational damage with anything like that today.
So G-INFO has the aircraft registered as 1972, de-registered 1974. I'll have to go for 1972 though there is nothing to say it wasn't '73. In for maintenance or painting with AEL?
Splitting hairs but of course Monarch's first 720Bs (051Bs)were ex Northwest. They then operated an leased Maersk example of similar origin (G-BHGE). They eventually inherited the two ex American 023Bs (BCBA/B) operated by Invicta and Somali respectively.
They did operate two ex American 707 (123Bs) G-BFMI and G-BGCT.
Enjoying this thread- when will we exhaust our memories?