For my personal tastes: while both classes are ugly in appearance (but rather charmingly so) -- I favour the S100, as thus being, to a Briton, ugly; and additionally, in a somewhat exotic way. Also, S100s operated during / post World War II in a, for me, fairly mind-boggling assortment of lands, besides our own: Austria, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Palestine / Israel, Iraq, Iran, and China. (Yugoslavia built some of the type new in the 1950s -- in that part of the world, designated class 62: as at a few years ago, a few remained in everyday industrial service in parts of former Yugoslavia, though I don't think this is still the case.)
"Austerities" ran in other countries besides Britain, but in nothing like the range thereof, in which their American counterparts did so.