https://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Dave_Ward&feed=atom&action=historyDave Ward - Revision history2024-03-28T16:57:35ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.7https://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Dave_Ward&diff=15229&oldid=prevPhil at 21:20, 30 December 20112011-12-30T21:20:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Ward-mansion.jpg|thumb|300px|The Ward Mansion in Conway. Photo by Phil Frana.]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:Ward-mansion.jpg|thumb|300px|The Ward Mansion in Conway. Photo by Phil Frana.]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Conway Human Development Center|</ins>Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Ward had no formal education beyond the sixth grade, apparently not taking to "book learning." At age thirteen the Wards moved to [[Beryl]] in [[Faulkner County]]. By age sixteen he was working as a rock crusher operator for the local roads department. In 1921 he began hauling freight between [[Vilonia]] and Conway with a Ford Model T truck. Beginning in 1922 Ward moved back and forth between Arkansas and Texas, alternately helping in his father's blacksmith shop, but also picking cotton,  wildcatting, welding, and laying oil pipelines. He also worked briefly on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Greenville, Texas. In 1928 he married [[Bertha Cazort]] of Vilonia and moved with his new bride to Conway. He first worked as a blacksmith for the Williams Brothers Pipe Line Company, but in October 1931 began blacksmithing in Conway in earnest. He opened his own eight hundred square foot blacksmith shop on the 900 block of Harrison Street in his adopted hometown in May 1933. The shop cost him $50. Bertha worked in the dress shop on the second floor above [[Greeson's Drug Store]]. She also served as the blacksmith shop's bookkeeper.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Ward had no formal education beyond the sixth grade, apparently not taking to "book learning." At age thirteen the Wards moved to [[Beryl]] in [[Faulkner County]]. By age sixteen he was working as a rock crusher operator for the local roads department. In 1921 he began hauling freight between [[Vilonia]] and Conway with a Ford Model T truck. Beginning in 1922 Ward moved back and forth between Arkansas and Texas, alternately helping in his father's blacksmith shop, but also picking cotton,  wildcatting, welding, and laying oil pipelines. He also worked briefly on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Greenville, Texas. In 1928 he married [[Bertha Cazort]] of Vilonia and moved with his new bride to Conway. He first worked as a blacksmith for the Williams Brothers Pipe Line Company, but in October 1931 began blacksmithing in Conway in earnest. He opened his own eight hundred square foot blacksmith shop on the 900 block of Harrison Street in his adopted hometown in May 1933. The shop cost him $50. Bertha worked in the dress shop on the second floor above [[Greeson's Drug Store]]. She also served as the blacksmith shop's bookkeeper.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In his shop in 1933 Ward raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]]. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business in 1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for three employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year - one to the Hermitage School District in Warren, Arkansas, and another to the [[Greenbrier School District]] - but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In his shop in 1933 Ward raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">using, it is said, only a hammer, square, and a pair of metal snips</ins>. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business in 1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for three employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">one of </ins>the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year - one to the Hermitage School District in Warren, Arkansas, and another to the [[Greenbrier School District]] - but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's company grew rapidly as demand for school buses escalated. He sited a new bus-building operation at 805 Harkrider Avenue in the downtown district. The plant grew from an initial size of 10,000 square feet to over 100,000 square feet. Expansion of Ward Industries operations led to the establishment in 1956 of the patented bus window maker [[C. S. Sash Company]] and the [[Ward School Furniture Company]] in Conway. In 1950 he established a printing plant, entering into a lasting, and bitter struggle with the local ''[[Log Cabin Democrat]]'' newspaper. He also pursued his business in Mexico City, where he opened a bus plant in February 1947. The Mexico City plant closed in 1954 as cross-border operations became more difficult. To replace this plant Ward built a new Ward Body Works facility in Austin, Texas. The 71,600 square foot Austin plant opened in March 1951, receiving parts for making buses from the Conway plant.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's company grew rapidly as demand for school buses escalated. He sited a new bus-building operation at 805 Harkrider Avenue in the downtown district. The plant grew from an initial size of 10,000 square feet to over 100,000 square feet. Expansion of Ward Industries operations led to the establishment in 1956 of the patented bus window maker [[C. S. Sash Company]] and the [[Ward School Furniture Company]] in Conway. In 1950 he established a printing plant, entering into a lasting, and bitter struggle with the local ''[[Log Cabin Democrat]]'' newspaper. He also pursued his business in Mexico City, where he opened a bus plant in February 1947. The Mexico City plant closed in 1954 as cross-border operations became more difficult. To replace this plant Ward built a new Ward Body Works facility in Austin, Texas. The 71,600 square foot Austin plant opened in March 1951, receiving parts for making buses from the Conway plant.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of his eldest son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959. The Austin plant remained open until 1970, when it was replaced with a new 41,000 square foot plant in Darlington, Pennsylvania. All parts used in assembly at the Pennsylvania plant continued to come directly from the Conway plant. At about the same time the United Auto Workers organized a union in both plants. By 1973 Ward was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. In January of that year Charles Ward and his brother [[Stephen Ward]] purchased Coachette from Texas businessman Carl Graham and moved the Lo-boy and Hi-boy van-type passenger bus maker into an old Surelite building. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of his eldest son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959. The Austin plant remained open until 1970, when it was replaced with a new 41,000 square foot plant in Darlington, Pennsylvania. All parts used in assembly at the Pennsylvania plant continued to come directly from the Conway plant. At about the same time the United Auto Workers organized a union in both plants. By 1973 Ward was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. In January of that year Charles Ward and his brother [[Stephen Ward]] purchased Coachette from Texas businessman Carl Graham and moved the Lo-boy and Hi-boy van-type passenger bus maker into an old Surelite building. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td></tr>
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</table>Philhttps://honors.uca.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Dave_Ward&diff=10041&oldid=prevPhil at 22:29, 18 May 20092009-05-18T22:29:30Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In his shop in 1933 Ward raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]]. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business in 1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for three employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year - one to the Hermitage School District in Warren, Arkansas, and another to the [[Greenbrier School District]] - but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In his shop in 1933 Ward raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]]. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business in 1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for three employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year - one to the Hermitage School District in Warren, Arkansas, and another to the [[Greenbrier School District]] - but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the early 1950s the company was producing revenues of $2.5 million a year. In 1953 sales reached $5 million and the two plants in Conway and Austin manufactured two thousand bus bodies. The steel was procured from Jones & Laughlin which floated the product down the Mississippi. Ward School Furniture was sold to [[Chamberlin]] in the mid-1950s.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the early 1950s the company was producing revenues of $2.5 million a year. In 1953 sales reached $5 million and the two plants in Conway and Austin manufactured two thousand bus bodies. The steel was procured from Jones & Laughlin which floated the product down the Mississippi. Ward School Furniture was sold to [[Chamberlin <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">School Furniture</ins>]] in the mid-1950s.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1954 Ward moved his Conway assembly line operations from Harkrider Avenue to a 114,000 square foot plant with about 170 employees just south of the city limits on [[Arkansas Highway 65]]. The fabricating and tool-and-die departments were moved south in March 1957. Sixteen parts presses and a cold-forming mill manufactured parts weighing from one-half to four-hundred tons at the new plant. The plant also had three squaring shears of six to twelve feet in length that could cut through quarter inch steel. The tool-and-die department relied on a Do-All Friction Saw. The assembly line, fifteen hundred feet in length, was populated by fourteen resistant welding machines, seventy-five arc welding machines, an inert gas welder, and numerous jigs and fixtures. The company also held a paint room and drive-in bake oven. The factory could churn out one hundred bodies each week, and the assembly line filled to capacity with forty-five bodies at any given time. Bodies were mounted on Ford and GM chasses, and then driven directly to buyers. His bus bodies were so tough that one involved in accident in which it did a "triple somersault off an embankment" with forty passengers did not collapse. The company in the 1950s expanded beyond school buses, to the manufacture of air-conditioned chicken hatchery and mass transit buses. In 1960 the company added sightseeing buses to its line.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1954 Ward moved his Conway assembly line operations from Harkrider Avenue to a 114,000 square foot plant with about 170 employees just south of the city limits on [[Arkansas Highway 65]]. The fabricating and tool-and-die departments were moved south in March 1957. Sixteen parts presses and a cold-forming mill manufactured parts weighing from one-half to four-hundred tons at the new plant. The plant also had three squaring shears of six to twelve feet in length that could cut through quarter inch steel. The tool-and-die department relied on a Do-All Friction Saw. The assembly line, fifteen hundred feet in length, was populated by fourteen resistant welding machines, seventy-five arc welding machines, an inert gas welder, and numerous jigs and fixtures. The company also held a paint room and drive-in bake oven. The factory could churn out one hundred bodies each week, and the assembly line filled to capacity with forty-five bodies at any given time. Bodies were mounted on Ford and GM chasses, and then driven directly to buyers. His bus bodies were so tough that one involved in accident in which it did a "triple somersault off an embankment" with forty passengers did not collapse. The company in the 1950s expanded beyond school buses, to the manufacture of air-conditioned chicken hatchery and mass transit buses. In 1960 the company added sightseeing buses to its line.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of his son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959. The Austin plant remained open until 1970, when it was replaced with a new 41,000 square foot plant in Darlington, Pennsylvania. All parts used in assembly at the Pennsylvania plant continued to come directly from the Conway plant. At about the same time the United Auto Workers organized a union in both plants. By 1973 Ward was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. In January of that year Charles Ward and his brother [[Stephen Ward]] purchased Coachette from Texas businessman Carl Graham and moved the Lo-boy and Hi-boy van-type passenger bus maker into an old Surelite building. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">eldest </ins>son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959. The Austin plant remained open until 1970, when it was replaced with a new 41,000 square foot plant in Darlington, Pennsylvania. All parts used in assembly at the Pennsylvania plant continued to come directly from the Conway plant. At about the same time the United Auto Workers organized a union in both plants. By 1973 Ward was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. In January of that year Charles Ward and his brother [[Stephen Ward]] purchased Coachette from Texas businessman Carl Graham and moved the Lo-boy and Hi-boy van-type passenger bus maker into an old Surelite building. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Ward had no formal education beyond the sixth grade, apparently not taking to "book learning." At age thirteen the Wards moved to [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vilonia</del>]] in [[Faulkner County]]. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Dave </del>Ward moved back and forth between Arkansas and Texas <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in his teens and twenties</del>, alternately helping in his father's blacksmith shop, but also wildcatting, welding, and laying oil pipelines. In 1928 he married [[Bertha Cazort]] of Vilonia and moved with his new bride to Conway. He opened <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">a 800 </del>square foot blacksmith shop <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with three employees </del>in his adopted hometown in 1933. Bertha worked in the dress shop on the second floor above [[Greeson's Drug Store]]. She also served as the blacksmith shop's bookkeeper.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Ward had no formal education beyond the sixth grade, apparently not taking to "book learning." At age thirteen the Wards moved to [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Beryl</ins>]] in [[Faulkner County]]. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By age sixteen he was working as a rock crusher operator for the local roads department. In 1921 he began hauling freight between [[Vilonia]] and Conway with a Ford Model T truck. Beginning in 1922 </ins>Ward moved back and forth between Arkansas and Texas, alternately helping in his father's blacksmith shop, but also <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">picking cotton,  </ins>wildcatting, welding, and laying oil pipelines<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He also worked briefly on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Greenville, Texas</ins>. In 1928 he married [[Bertha Cazort]] of Vilonia and moved with his new bride to Conway<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He first worked as a blacksmith for the Williams Brothers Pipe Line Company, but in October 1931 began blacksmithing in Conway in earnest</ins>. He opened <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his own eight hundred </ins>square foot blacksmith shop <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on the 900 block of Harrison Street </ins>in his adopted hometown in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">May </ins>1933<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. The shop cost him $50</ins>. Bertha worked in the dress shop on the second floor above [[Greeson's Drug Store]]. She also served as the blacksmith shop's bookkeeper.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1933 Ward raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]]. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business in 1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year, but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his shop in </ins>1933 Ward raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]]. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business in 1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">three </ins>employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">- one to the Hermitage School District in Warren</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Arkansas, and another to the [[Greenbrier School District]] - </ins>but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's company grew rapidly as demand for school buses escalated. Expansion of Ward Industries operations led to the establishment of the [[C. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </del>S. Sash Company]] and [[Ward School Furniture Company]] in Conway<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and the Ward Body Works in Austin, Texas. He also pursued business opportunities in Oklahoma and also in Mexico</del>. In 1950 he established a printing plant, entering into a lasting, and bitter struggle with the local ''[[Log Cabin Democrat]]'' newspaper.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's company grew rapidly as demand for school buses escalated<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He sited a new bus-building operation at 805 Harkrider Avenue in the downtown district. The plant grew from an initial size of 10,000 square feet to over 100,000 square feet</ins>. Expansion of Ward Industries operations led to the establishment <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in 1951 </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">patented bus window maker </ins>[[C. S. Sash Company]] and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>[[Ward School Furniture Company]] in Conway. In 1950 he established a printing plant, entering into a lasting, and bitter struggle with the local ''[[Log Cabin Democrat]]'' newspaper<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. He also pursued his business in Mexico City, where he opened a bus plant in February 1947. The Mexico City plant closed in 1954 as cross-border operations became more difficult. To replace this plant Ward built a new Ward Body Works facility in Austin, Texas. The 71,600 square foot Austin plant opened in March 1951, receiving parts for making buses from the Conway plant</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the early 1950s the company was producing revenues of $2.5 million a year. In 1953 sales reached $5 million and the two plants in Conway and Austin manufactured two thousand bus bodies. The steel was procured from Jones & Laughlin which floated the product down the Mississippi.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By the early 1950s the company was producing revenues of $2.5 million a year. In 1953 sales reached $5 million and the two plants in Conway and Austin manufactured two thousand bus bodies. The steel was procured from Jones & Laughlin which floated the product down the Mississippi<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Ward School Furniture was sold to [[Chamberlin]] in the mid-1950s</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1954 Ward moved his Conway assembly line operations from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">805 </del>Harkrider Avenue <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in the downtown district </del>to a 114,000 square foot plant with about 170 employees just south of the city limits on Highway <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">286</del>. The fabricating and tool-and-die departments were moved south in March 1957. Sixteen parts presses and a cold-forming mill manufactured parts weighing from one-half to four-hundred tons at the new plant. The plant also had three squaring shears of six to twelve feet in length that could cut through quarter inch steel. The tool-and-die department relied on a Do-All Friction Saw. The assembly line, fifteen hundred feet in length, was populated by fourteen resistant welding machines, seventy-five arc welding machines, an inert gas welder, and numerous jigs and fixtures. The company also held a paint room and drive-in bake oven. The factory could churn out one hundred bodies each week, and the assembly line filled to capacity with forty-five bodies at any given time. Bodies were mounted on Ford and GM chasses, and then driven directly to buyers. His bus bodies were so tough that one involved in accident in which it did a "triple somersault off an embankment" with forty passengers did not collapse. The company in the 1950s expanded beyond school buses, to the manufacture of air-conditioned chicken hatchery and mass transit buses. In 1960 the company added sightseeing buses to its line.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1954 Ward moved his Conway assembly line operations from Harkrider Avenue to a 114,000 square foot plant with about 170 employees just south of the city limits on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Arkansas </ins>Highway <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">65]]</ins>. The fabricating and tool-and-die departments were moved south in March 1957. Sixteen parts presses and a cold-forming mill manufactured parts weighing from one-half to four-hundred tons at the new plant. The plant also had three squaring shears of six to twelve feet in length that could cut through quarter inch steel. The tool-and-die department relied on a Do-All Friction Saw. The assembly line, fifteen hundred feet in length, was populated by fourteen resistant welding machines, seventy-five arc welding machines, an inert gas welder, and numerous jigs and fixtures. The company also held a paint room and drive-in bake oven. The factory could churn out one hundred bodies each week, and the assembly line filled to capacity with forty-five bodies at any given time. Bodies were mounted on Ford and GM chasses, and then driven directly to buyers. His bus bodies were so tough that one involved in accident in which it did a "triple somersault off an embankment" with forty passengers did not collapse. The company in the 1950s expanded beyond school buses, to the manufacture of air-conditioned chicken hatchery and mass transit buses. In 1960 the company added sightseeing buses to its line.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of his son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959. By 1973 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it </del>was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of his son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. The Austin plant remained open until 1970, when it was replaced with a new 41,000 square foot plant in Darlington, Pennsylvania. All parts used in assembly at the Pennsylvania plant continued to come directly from the Conway plant. At about the same time the United Auto Workers organized a union in both plants</ins>. By 1973 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ward </ins>was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. In January of that year Charles Ward and his brother [[Stephen Ward]] purchased Coachette from Texas businessman Carl Graham and moved the Lo-boy and Hi-boy van-type passenger bus maker into an old Surelite building</ins>. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''David Henry "Dave" Ward''' was a blacksmith and founder of the [[Ward Body Works]] in [[Conway]], Arkansas.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''David Henry "Dave" Ward''' was a blacksmith and founder of the [[Ward Body Works]] in [[Conway]], Arkansas.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">started the company with $125 in 1933 after lowering the wooden roof of a school bus used by </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Carl Brady</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of the </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Southside School District</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">located approximately fifteen miles north </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Conway</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies</del>, the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first in the country to do so. In </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1960s </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">company began an innovative program </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">computer-aided manufacturing with IBM 360s</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was born to </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Gaylord Oscar Ward</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Lottie P. Ward</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on September 1, 1904, in Wolfe City, Texas, the fourth child </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nine, including seven brothers and a sister</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">His father was a blacksmith, a sawmill operator</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and a Nazarene preacher. All of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">children of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">household were schooled on </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">importance </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">independent entrepreneurship, and all started their own businesses</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The company passed into </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hands of son </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Charles Ward</del>]] in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1968</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By 1973 it was the largest school bus manufacturer </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the world</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">with a twenty-five percent market share. A second plant opened </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Beaver Falls</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pennsylvania</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">but this operation failed in 1975</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The company, then known as </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ward School Bus Manufacturing</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1979</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The plant </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Conway is now owned by </del>the [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">IC Corporation</del>]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Dave Ward had no formal education beyond </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sixth grade, apparently not taking to "book learning." At age thirteen the Wards moved to </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Vilonia</ins>]] in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Faulkner County]]</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Dave Ward moved back and forth between Arkansas and Texas </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his teens and twenties</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">alternately helping </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his father's blacksmith shop, but also wildcatting</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">welding</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and laying oil pipelines</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1928 he married </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bertha Cazort</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of Vilonia and moved with his new bride to Conway. He opened a 800 square foot blacksmith shop with three employees in his adopted hometown </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1933</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Bertha worked </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">dress shop on the second floor above </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Greeson's Drug Store</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. She also served as the blacksmith shop's bookkeeper</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was born </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1904</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1933 </ins>Ward <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">raised the roof on a "wood bodied" school bus for [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]]. He formally entered the school bus manufacturing business </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1936 with $125. Ward raised additional capital and payroll for employees by replacing the shoes on up to one hundred horses each day. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. His first bus had single benches running along each side of the interior and windows made of glass and chicken wire. Ward sold at least two bodies that year, but continued in blacksmithing until 1939, when he began building bus bodies full time</ins>.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ward's company grew rapidly as demand for school buses escalated. Expansion of Ward Industries operations led to the establishment of the [[C. and S. Sash Company]] and [[Ward School Furniture Company]] in Conway, and the Ward Body Works in Austin, Texas. He also pursued business opportunities in Oklahoma and also in Mexico. In 1950 he established a printing plant, entering into a lasting, and bitter struggle with the local ''[[Log Cabin Democrat]]'' newspaper.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">By the early 1950s the company was producing revenues of $2.5 million a year. In 1953 sales reached $5 million and the two plants in Conway and Austin manufactured two thousand bus bodies. The steel was procured from Jones & Laughlin which floated the product down the Mississippi. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In 1954 Ward moved his Conway assembly line operations from 805 Harkrider Avenue in the downtown district to a 114,000 square foot plant with about 170 employees just south of the city limits on Highway 286. The fabricating and tool-and-die departments were moved south in March 1957. Sixteen parts presses and a cold-forming mill manufactured parts weighing from one-half to four-hundred tons at the new plant. The plant also had three squaring shears of six to twelve feet in length that could cut through quarter inch steel. The tool-and-die department relied on a Do-All Friction Saw. The assembly line, fifteen hundred feet in length, was populated by fourteen resistant welding machines, seventy-five arc welding machines, an inert gas welder, and numerous jigs and fixtures. The company also held a paint room and drive-in bake oven. The factory could churn out one hundred bodies each week, and the assembly line filled to capacity with forty-five bodies at any given time. Bodies were mounted on Ford and GM chasses, and then driven directly to buyers. His bus bodies were so tough that one involved in accident in which it did a "triple somersault off an embankment" with forty passengers did not collapse. The company in the 1950s expanded beyond school buses, to the manufacture of air-conditioned chicken hatchery and mass transit buses. In 1960 the company added sightseeing buses to its line.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In the 1960s the company began an innovative program of computer-aided manufacturing with IBM 360s.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The company passed into the hands of his son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. Charles had worked for Ward Body Works in Austin since quitting school in 1959. By 1973 it was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Ward's daughter [[Wanda Jean Stephens]] is a 1958 graduate of the [[Arkansas School of Medicine]]. She was employed thereafter by the [[Arkansas Children's Colony]] in Conway. The Wards also had a son [[Stephen Austin]]. Ward was [[Conway School Board]] member from 1946 to 1958, and a longtime trustee of the local [[First Church of the Nazarene]]. He considered a run for Arkansas governor in 1946, but dropped out lacking sufficient backing. He remained involved in local and state Democratic politics. </ins>The Ward family mansion is located at 1912 Caldwell Street in Conway. The brick-and-steel mansion, dating to 1951, is now under commercial operation as the [[Ward Mansion Bed & Breakfast]].  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Ward Drive in Conway (also known as [[Arkansas Highway 286]]) is named for the bus company founder.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dave Ward Drive in Conway (also known as [[Arkansas Highway 286]]) is named for the bus company founder.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Barry Beck, "Ward Industries, Inc.: A Historical Study," ''Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings'' 16 (Winter 1974): 67-83.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Barry Beck, "Ward Industries, Inc.: A Historical Study," ''Faulkner Facts and Fiddlings'' 16 (Winter 1974): 67-83.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Ward Body Works, Inc., ''Ward, the Champion of Transportation: Designed for the Safety of Your Children (Conway, AR: The Company, 1954).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Ward Body Works, Inc., ''Ward, the Champion of Transportation: Designed for the Safety of Your Children (Conway, AR: The Company, 1954).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. By 1973 it was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The company passed into the hands of son [[Charles Ward]] in 1968. By 1973 it was the largest school bus manufacturer in the world, with a twenty-five percent market share. A second plant opened in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, but this operation failed in 1975. The company, then known as [[Ward School Bus Manufacturing]], went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1979. The plant in Conway is now owned by the [[IC Corporation]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward started the company with $125 in 1933 after lowering the wooden roof of a school bus used by [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]] located approximately fifteen miles north of Conway. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. In the 1960s the company began an innovative program of computer-aided manufacturing with IBM 360s.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ward started the company with $125 in 1933 after lowering the wooden roof of a school bus used by [[Carl Brady]] of the [[Southside School District]] located approximately fifteen miles north of Conway. In 1936 he began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, the first in the country to do so. In the 1960s the company began an innovative program of computer-aided manufacturing with IBM 360s.</div></td></tr>
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