Whistling Billy - White Steam Car

Whistling Billy must have been a sight to see in its heyday travelling throughout the country racing on the dirt trotting–horse tracks. Here Whistling Billy is seen with the original driver Webb Jay seated in it in 1905.

Whistling Billy

In winter 1904/05 the White company built a steam works sprint car for the popular new motor racing on the dirt trotting horse tracks throughout North America. Many of these were one mile ovals so owners could compare any trotting horse across America on time over one mile.

The car was called The White Flyer but soon it was renamed by the crowds “Whistling Billy” because of the howl that it made from its burners going down the straights. (The names and most of the pictures come from newspaper reports of the time –Whistling Billy is known sometimes during its racing career as “The White Flyer” but usually the former).

Nick Price Creatives was commissioned to create a new page featuring Whistling Billy to the SCCGB (Steam Car Club of Great Britain) website. NPC had worked on the huge 1,000 page website previously, designing the new look a couple of years ago and, due to the amount of images, history, video and information available on the old racer, came up with four fantastic pages unique (and fitting) to Whistling Billy within the site.

Whistling Billy Intro Page on the SCCGB Website