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	Buckinghamshire AdmC	Amersham RD Aylesbury MB/UD Aylesbury RD Beaconsfield UD Bletchley UD Buckingham RD Buckingham MB Chesham UD Eton UD Eton RD High Wycombe MB Linslade UD Marlow UD Newport Pagnell RD Newport Pagnell UD Slough MB/UD Wing RD Winslow RD Wolverton UD Wycombe RD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	123,005	49,721
Married women (included in Total)	0	19,202
Employers	3,431	459
Managers	5,636	1,276
Operatives	105,933	46,286
Working on own account	8,005	1,700
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	10,600	1,168
1. Agriculture and horticulture	10,392	1,164
II. Mining and quarrying	192	9
10. Coal mining	7	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	185	9
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	2,732	189
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	1,831	35
24. Cement	130	3
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	2,682	1,754
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	473	396
V. Metal manufacture	2,948	529
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	10,098	3,250
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	164	9
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	627	102
56. Textile machinery and accessories	10	2
58. Constructional engineering	374	28
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	5,085	976
70. Electrical machinery	540	153
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	1,002	1,110
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	2,296	870
VII. Vehicles	9,734	1,374
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	1,476	179
81. Motor repairers and garages	2,198	232
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	2,134	678
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	1,727	733
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	1,767	716
X. Textiles	936	872
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	2	2
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	99	84
112. Woollen and worsted	29	21
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	56	41
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	188	350
123. Textile finishing, etc.	71	24
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	252	173
XII. Clothing	953	2,157
140. Tailoring	336	896
141. Dressmaking	23	456
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	479	277
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	3,827	2,223
150-162. Food	3,519	2,114
163-168. Drink	262	60
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	10,602	1,872
170. Timber	774	86
171. Furniture and upholstery	8,295	1,224
XV. Paper and printing	4,281	2,166
180. Paper and board	1,558	348
186,189. Printing and publishing	2,288	1,216
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	3,213	1,857
XVII. Building and contracting	10,698	261
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	1,979	138
210. Gas	767	51
211. Electricity	994	66
212. Water	218	21
XIX. Transport and communication	7,441	1,244
220. Railways	2,930	158
221,222. Road passenger transport	1,467	161
223. Goods transport by road	1,083	68
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	210	14
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	1,521	784
XX. Distributive trades	8,763	6,203
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	1,097	151
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	581	98
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	454	186
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	3,151	2,213
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	621	182
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	2,518	3,035
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	341	338
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	1,236	540
XXII. Public administration and defence	15,035	1,990
260. National government service	11,621	1,404
265. Local government service	3,414	586
XXIII. Professional services	4,794	7,028
271. Education	1,778	3,003
273. Medical and dental services	1,486	3,191
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	6,397	11,218
280,281. Entertainment and sport	599	487
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	2,016	4,012
286. Laundries	193	684
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	106	181
288. Hairdressing and manicure	279	436
290,291. Private domestic service	2,518	5,091
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	118	57

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

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

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