Ward Body Works A blacksmith by trade, Ward grew his business primarily on body repair of bus bodies in the area. In 1936, he built his first complete school bus body. One of the first manufacturers of the time to use all-metal construction, the first school bus made by Ward Body Works featured removable safety-glass windows and perimeter and center-mounted seating. In 1939, the company opened a 10,000 square-foot factory in Conway, Arkansas. During World War II, along with supplying buses for the military, Ward built over 1000 different bodies of various types for the GMC CCKW cargo truck. Following the war, the
Censoring the Body Censoring the Body Censoring the Body is a 2007 book by Edward Lucie-Smith published by Seagull Books. Lucie-Smith's work explores the representation of the human body in art history and the way in which those representations show us changing attitudes to nakedness and sexuality. In the earliest extant artworks of humanity (works from the Paleolithic era) the focus is chiefly upon fertility—a focus that mutates at various points in history, particularly with the rise of Christianity and its associated ideas of Original Sin and the Fall of mankind. He also explores techniques that have been used to limit the depiction