In Australia, Brain and Brown operated a 100 Series Argosy VH-BBA for a period in the early 1970's and then the aircraft was purchased by Ipec Aviation who operated three aircraft up ontil 1990.
Ipec operated them on the Bass Strait night freight run between Essendon and Launceston until replaced by the DC-9.
Safe-Air in NZ also operated them on freight work and also out the Chatnam Islands in a combi onfiguration.
The climb rate on an Argosy out of Melbourne on a hot night, was mainly due to the curvature of the earth.
Long live the whistlin' wheelbarrow.