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 Cambridgeshire AdmC	Chesterton RD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	12,654	3,394
Married women (included in Total)	0	1,154
Employers	501	33
Managers	349	93
Operatives	10,380	3,136
Working on own account	1,424	132
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	3,711	306
1. Agriculture and horticulture	3,706	306
II. Mining and quarrying	23	0
10. Coal mining	3	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	20	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	49	0
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	7	0
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	212	18
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	206	18
V. Metal manufacture	0	0
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	446	142
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	10	9
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	0	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	3	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	413	57
70. Electrical machinery	1	0
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	16	75
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	3	1
VII. Vehicles	983	63
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	130	6
81. Motor repairers and garages	642	44
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	202	12
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	31	5
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	8	0
X. Textiles	5	1
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	0	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	0	1
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	93	36
XII. Clothing	17	14
140. Tailoring	2	5
141. Dressmaking	0	7
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	14	1
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	1,090	1,020
150-162. Food	1,088	1,020
163-168. Drink	1	0
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	309	48
170. Timber	13	3
171. Furniture and upholstery	266	43
XV. Paper and printing	115	74
180. Paper and board	3	1
186,189. Printing and publishing	55	48
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	45	12
XVII. Building and contracting	953	10
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	207	31
210. Gas	2	0
211. Electricity	184	30
212. Water	21	1
XIX. Transport and communication	492	88
220. Railways	149	13
221,222. Road passenger transport	34	4
223. Goods transport by road	119	7
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	6	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	45	38
XX. Distributive trades	474	234
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	97	17
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	5	1
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	34	14
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	218	119
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	24	1
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	78	67
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	18	15
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	24	4
XXII. Public administration and defence	2,340	77
260. National government service	2,115	64
265. Local government service	225	13
XXIII. Professional services	501	533
271. Education	102	256
273. Medical and dental services	302	246
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	496	662
280,281. Entertainment and sport	30	5
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	196	216
286. Laundries	18	76
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	1	0
288. Hairdressing and manicure	12	14
290,291. Private domestic service	203	337
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	30	16

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