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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.
Ward established the company after lowering the wooden roof of a school bus used by the Southside School District located several miles north of Conway. In 1936 Ward began manufacturing all-steel bus bodies, one of the first in the country to do so.
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.
19 lut 2016 · Dave Ward was a hard-working successful Conway businessman who built yellow school buses and in the process created hundreds of jobs for the local economy.
Each day, our Conway Public Schools buses transport more than 4,000 students to and from school, driving around 3,600 miles throughout the City of Conway. Our drivers' mission is to get your children home to you safely.
American Transportation Corporation (better known as AmTran) was an American manufacturer of school bus bodies. Tracing its roots to Ward Body Works (established in 1933), AmTran was formed in 1980 following the 1979 bankruptcy of Ward to continue bus production.
The closing of Ward's Mexico City assembly plant and increased domestic demand for new school buses led up to the construction of an all-new 114,000 sq. ft. plant located just south of the Conway city limits on Arkansas Highway 65.
