During the 1930's Henry Chapas was tired of spending so much money just to get a single part for a loco so he decided to invite the c class the reason the class was given this name is because when the ingectors where on it sounded like a chicken pecking the ground so they named it chicken class (c class)
When the first C1 came out the design was a lot more worse than this one it still had the signature red whistle and golden done and water ranks stored just under the running board but because of its 0-4-0 wheel configuration when ever the water tank got to half way the loco would just tip up so later on Henry decided to add an extra trailing wheel making it an 0-4-2. There where ten types of c classes in the end and all of them now are still in preservation at the Chapas moor railway.