Vision of Britain | 1951 Census: Industry

1951 Census of England and Wales, Industry Tables (Laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4 (1), Census Act, 1920), Table 3 : " Industries (Orders and Selected Units) and Status Aggregates. Occupied Males and Females aged 15 and over for Urban Areas with population of less than 50,000, RD, NT".

List Bedfordshire AdmC	Bedford MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	16,829	9,203
Married women (included in Total)	0	3,385
Employers	367	67
Managers	964	228
Operatives	14,559	8,612
Working on own account	939	296
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	200	32
1. Agriculture and horticulture	197	32
II. Mining and quarrying	10	2
10. Coal mining	0	1
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	10	1
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	35	18
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	6	1
24. Cement	4	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	83	12
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	34	6
V. Metal manufacture	684	84
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	4,124	944
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	10	1
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	16	1
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	12	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	1,194	207
70. Electrical machinery	2,816	723
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	28	5
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	48	7
VII. Vehicles	644	65
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	68	7
81. Motor repairers and garages	394	40
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	17	4
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	59	53
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	21	4
X. Textiles	31	33
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	1
112. Woollen and worsted	2	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	2	4
123. Textile finishing, etc.	4	3
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	9	5
XII. Clothing	149	493
140. Tailoring	47	151
141. Dressmaking	3	132
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	90	10
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	666	780
150-162. Food	478	746
163-168. Drink	185	33
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	316	28
170. Timber	72	0
171. Furniture and upholstery	69	10
XV. Paper and printing	378	183
180. Paper and board	0	0
186,189. Printing and publishing	365	158
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	114	117
XVII. Building and contracting	1,312	27
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	704	113
210. Gas	209	25
211. Electricity	455	88
212. Water	40	0
XIX. Transport and communication	1,766	348
220. Railways	711	19
221,222. Road passenger transport	372	82
223. Goods transport by road	177	14
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	8	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	468	228
XX. Distributive trades	2,316	2,003
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	279	74
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	108	13
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	135	46
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	593	487
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	264	103
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	874	1,203
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	63	77
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	357	218
XXII. Public administration and defence	1,302	453
260. National government service	423	198
265. Local government service	879	255
XXIII. Professional services	848	1,364
271. Education	322	568
273. Medical and dental services	262	638
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	688	1,818
280,281. Entertainment and sport	105	68
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	273	873
286. Laundries	37	108
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	46	69
288. Hairdressing and manicure	64	117
290,291. Private domestic service	35	530
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	13	6

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