Some sources give the livery under Australian Steamships, the shipping arm from 1913 to 1964, and others under Howard Smith. Rosanoski places the shipping comments under Howard Smith Industries, the later name.
This funnel began with the tanker Howard Smith in 1969 and became fleet-wide.
The funnel combines the basic colours of the original joint-venture partners Howard Smith and McIlwraith McEarchan.
Express flew the green fighting-kangaroo flag at Lyttelton on 26 November 1990: a yellow kangaroo with red eye and boxing gloves, the battle flag of Australia II, the 1983 America’s Cup winner. Separately, a drawing of Gabo shows a flag panel on the funnel.
The shipping arm is dated to 1920. Its interests included Intercontinental Shipping and R.W. Miller Tanker, Cawby, later Gladstone Tug Services, Melbourne Tug Services, and the P&O venture Offshore Maintenance Services. South Seas Towage was formed with Burns Philp. Managed fleets included Bass Express, Coal & Allied, Intercontinental, Pomace, Portland Smelter and Coastal Tankers from November 1994. Rosanoski rejects a later register’s description of Coastal Tankers as an operating subsidiary.
Australia, Sydney.
Keep the explicit scope label independent; no alias or company identity is inferred.