invented types of sewing machine; 1860 - about 1877 - factory located at 4 Wells Street, London, trading as Edward Ward;

c1878 -1892 - E. Ward & Co; made a variety of machines: elastic, flowering, cross arm, closing machine, Howe, lily, Arm & Platform Mk1 (1875), Arm & Platform Mk2 (improved), one of the very first free-arm sewing machines (1877), No. 12 machine, Alert, (1888)