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".

Show England Dep table	Shropshire AdmC	Atcham RD Bishops Castle MB Bridgnorth RD Bridgnorth MB Church Stretton UD Clun RD Dawley UD Drayton RD Ellesmere UD Ellesmere RD Ludlow MB Ludlow RD Market Drayton UD Newport UD Oakengates UD Oswestry MB Oswestry RD Shifnal RD Shrewsbury MB Wellington UD Wellington RD Wem RD Wem UD Wenlock MB Whitchurch UD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	104,557	31,251
Married women (included in Total)	0	9,822
Employers	4,465	513
Managers	3,041	940
Operatives	89,017	28,277
Working on own account	8,034	1,521
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	20,175	2,319
1. Agriculture and horticulture	19,638	2,292
II. Mining and quarrying	4,215	55
10. Coal mining	3,452	27
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	763	28
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	919	178
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	578	122
24. Cement	2	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	173	69
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	72	26
V. Metal manufacture	2,834	400
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	5,511	994
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	15	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	336	82
56. Textile machinery and accessories	1	0
58. Constructional engineering	1,111	110
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	3,635	491
70. Electrical machinery	101	95
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	256	182
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	56	34
VII. Vehicles	6,676	762
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	275	26
81. Motor repairers and garages	2,043	247
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	3,912	485
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	1,247	484
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	92	12
X. Textiles	270	334
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	2	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	1
112. Woollen and worsted	4	1
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	2
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1	15
123. Textile finishing, etc.	5	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	113	30
XII. Clothing	341	407
140. Tailoring	83	92
141. Dressmaking	3	163
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	230	15
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	2,216	713
150-162. Food	1,795	536
163-168. Drink	412	173
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	569	53
170. Timber	298	36
171. Furniture and upholstery	97	13
XV. Paper and printing	478	167
180. Paper and board	2	1
186,189. Printing and publishing	472	164
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	278	632
XVII. Building and contracting	6,915	120
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	1,936	163
210. Gas	577	69
211. Electricity	1,090	93
212. Water	269	1
XIX. Transport and communication	7,775	1,174
220. Railways	3,933	182
221,222. Road passenger transport	939	161
223. Goods transport by road	1,210	58
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	89	1
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	1,527	765
XX. Distributive trades	7,224	5,639
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	1,151	160
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	572	56
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	355	238
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	2,381	2,050
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	571	157
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	2,014	2,706
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	180	272
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	1,376	405
XXII. Public administration and defence	26,555	2,866
260. National government service	23,477	2,361
265. Local government service	3,078	505
XXIII. Professional services	3,092	5,130
271. Education	1,277	2,314
273. Medical and dental services	862	2,395
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	3,475	8,129
280,281. Entertainment and sport	397	244
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	1,322	3,346
286. Laundries	142	493
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	16	68
288. Hairdressing and manicure	200	238
290,291. Private domestic service	1,130	3,558
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	102	16

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Using data from this table, Vision of Britain can map the following rates for within Shropshire AdmC:

Rate	Date
Agriculture	1951
Finance & Business Services	1951
Manufacturing	1951
Mining	1951
Public Services	1951

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