Happened to find this great close-up on the 'Shanairpic' Flickr Album. Shows the 1st of (2) -212's on it's delivery flight during a stop-over at Shannon in June 1971. Though MSA will always be remembered for their (5) 737-112's, they did place (2) orders for the 200 series and 9V-BCR was the first to be delivered. These 1971 deliveries also show the final MSA colors in which the 'Malaysia-Singapore Airlines' titles were no longer used, instead just 'Malaysia + Singapore'. The 'MSA' on the tail is slightly more angled and the 'Flying Tiger' was not used any longer. (2) ex-BI 707-327C's were also delivered in 1971 and wore this last MSA scheme. 9V-BCR waas transferred to Singapore Airlines as part of the October 1972 break-up and (2) months later was sold to Frontier, becoming N7382F in December. Quite a busy (15) months for this A/C!......John

You're absolutely correct! The MSA letters had become so recognizable that the new Singapore Airlines wanted to keep the 'MSA'-brand, so their initial plan was to be called Mercury Singapore Airlines. I had forgotten about that till you mentioned it but I do remember coming across that in the original research! It's been an amazing time researching in this internet-era. So much material is now available......John