When you say "used the bulbous nose DC4" (Carvair) I assume you don't mean as a pilot, but a passenger. You must have flown over my house which was under the approach path just before you cross the A127 from the south!! And now we have this cosy cyber chat!! What a small world it can become!!
From the ground I can tell you that the Bristol Freighters were much much noisier, they were so slooooow you could hear them from miles away. At least the Carvair was faster and didn't affect the TV picture so much. The faster the picture rolled, the closer the aircraft was, so you could time it to perfection to go into the street or garden and wave as the plane skimmed the roof! There were still Vikings about, Doves, Herons occasionally a Rapide, as well as DC4'a and-6's. The came the Viscount, Elizabethan and Friendship.