This company manufactured pocket cutlery and was active by 1893, when it was listed in Eyre Street.  The partners were Richard Ward and Charles Thomas Morton (1864-1952).   Few details are available on these cutlers.  However, Ward was enumerated in the Census (1911) as a 49-year-old spring-knife manufacturer, living in Latimer Street with his wife Annie.  Charles T. Morton was a cutlery manufacturer, living in Burcot Road.   He had been born in 1864, the son of Charles Morton, a spring knife cutler, and his wife Sarah.   Charles Sen. had died on 11 December 1884, aged 43, and was buried in the General Cemetery.   Ward & Morton’s address by 1901 was Rockingham Lane.  By 1919, only Charles Thomas Morton was listed as partner, living in Meersbrook.   The firm apparently became defunct in the early 1920s.  By 1939, Morton had retired as a pocket knife cutler.  He died on 18 January 1952, leaving £2,2019.  He was buried at Norton Cemetery.