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Ward Body Works
Company type
Family-owned
Industry
Transportation
Founded
1933
Founder
D.H. Ward
Defunct
1980, (company) 1992, (brand by successor AmTran from 1980-1992)
Fate
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Re-organized as American Transportation Corporation
Successor
American Transportation Corporation (AmTran)
Headquarters
Conway, Arkansas
Number of locations
2 (Conway, Arkansas and Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania)
Area served
North America
Products
School Buses Commercial Buses
Ward Body Works (also known as Ward Industries and Ward School Bus Manufacturing, Inc.) was an American bus manufacturer. Headquartered in Conway, Arkansas, Ward specialized in yellow school buses, alongside buses for other uses. Founded in 1933 by D.H. "Dave" Ward, the company was family-owned for nearly its entire existence.
Among several innovations, Ward was the first manufacturer to perform a rollover test on a school bus, leading to changes in school bus body design.[1] In another industry first, Ward was the first manufacturer to assemble buses on an assembly line.[2]
In 1980, Ward filed for bankruptcy and was reorganized as American Transportation Corporation (AmTran), keeping the Ward brand name in use on school buses. In 1991, AmTran was acquired by Navistar International, leading to the retirement of the Ward brand name during 1992. The company currently exists as the IC Bus subsidiary of Navistar (the successor of AmTran).
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was identified as the joints where body panels were fastened together. In 1967, safety engineers of WardBodyWorks of Conway, Arkansas (a competing bus...
rear-engine bus chassis produced in nearly 20 years. Aside from a few buses bodied by Corbeil in the late 1990s, this chassis has been used exclusively by...
towards the armed forces. In a contract shared with WardBodyWorks, Thomas also produced various bodies for the GMC CCKW truck. While the war had brought...
Canada, the chassis was exported worldwide to manufacturers to construct bus bodies for various uses. Prior to 1969, Lincoln-Mercury dealers in Canada marketed...
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stretching. Body piercing was also heavily popularized in the United States by a group of Californians, including Doug Malloy and Jim Ward. Ward (inspired...
bumped Kevin Ward Jr., causing Ward to lose control and spin out, into the wall. A full course yellow caution flag was displayed. Ward exited his vehicle...
construct a bus body. Around 1967, safety engineers at WardBodyWorks of Conway, Arkansas subjected one of their school bus bodies to a multiple roll...
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body proportions. Ward was one of eight children of artists Edward Matthew Ward and Henrietta Ward, and the great-grandson of the artist James Ward....
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