In 1907, the Italian government decided for the electrification of another 2000-km railway line and insisted on manufacturing the engines and equipment in Italy. They bought Kandó's patents and put him in charge of the management and design of the new Kandó-type engines and paid licence-fee for the electric motors to the Ganz factory. Two types of locomotives were developed with his leadership in Italy: a 1500 kw cinquanta and a 2100 kw trenta electric locomotives, from which altogether some 700 units were produced. 540 of these were still in service in 1945, the last three-phase line worked until 1976.