 The prototype locomotive C 1 was the only one of the class painted in the Victorian Railways 'Canadian Red' scheme.Locomotive C 2 was the first new Victorian Railways locomotive to be finished in the new VR livery of plain, unrelieved black, a cost-efficiency initiative introduced by the new VR Chairman Harold Clapp.It was the first of a further 25 C class members also built at Newport Workshops between 1921 and 1926.