the firm thompsons & co successfully won the contract for the 20 engines not being constructed by austral otis, and these were delivered from the end of 1914 numbered 893-912. a repeat order was placed in 1916 with deliveries of 963-982, and work had started on a further 20 engines when pressures of world war i led to the firm abandoning the remainder of the d contract extensions. the parts already constructed were forwarded to victorian railways workshops, initially with five each being built at bendigo and ballarat (1033-1037 and 1038-1042 respectively), and the next ten were split between newport (1043-1046), bendigo (1047-1049) and ballarat (1050-1052). these three workshops turned out virtually all subsequent locomotives for the victorian railway system until the post-war era. (some references exist to a further ten thompsons engines, but no evidence is available to support the claim.)