White Model C Steam Car Demi-limousine

The bodywork of this White steam car is interchangeable. In the photo, the closed winter body is fitted. For summer, an elegant open coachwork is available.

The bodywork of this White steam car is interchangeable. At the moment the closed winter body is fitted. For summer there is an elegant open coachwork available with beautiful tulip shaped backrests, which at the time were typical of cars in the more expensive class. The car is still completely original, partly thanks to a small incident that already took place in 1908. A fire tube of the steam boiler exploded. The car was towed to the owners house, who built a shed around the car. Only in the 1930s did the White see daylight again. The car was made roadworthy once more and from 1937 into the 1960s it was a regular participant in the London to Brighton Run. It is the oldest known White with a closed body. The condenser on this compound steam engine condenses the steam and directs it back to the water boiler, increasing the range. The condenser is mounted at the front, where normally the radiator would be. White, from Cleveland, Ohio, distinguished itself from other steam cars because owner Rollin White designed a boiler around the turn of the century that could produce steam very quickly and was also very quiet. The first steam car was immediately called the incomparable White. William H. Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, was a well known White owner. It also became the first official car of a president of the United States, William Howard Taft.