G'Day Tiger, thought it might bring you out to post - now, I wonder where Peter Iredell is! I hope he has internet access.
Yes, they certainly lost their character when the Big T adorned them. The SB scheme was just so delightful, and evokes wonderful memories, not only in myself, but it seems a lot of people.
Wasn't it also YOU that did the last ever TAA / Australian Airlines propeller service, I believe in a Jetstream J31? Memories of such trivialities are fading with the onset of C.R.A.F.T Disease.
Drop me a line sometime mate!