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 Nottinghamshire AdmC	Mansfield MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	13,012	9,886
Married women (included in Total)	0	4,004
Employers	360	44
Managers	680	143
Operatives	11,185	9,456
Working on own account	787	243
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	155	16
1. Agriculture and horticulture	149	16
II. Mining and quarrying	349	10
10. Coal mining	220	6
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	129	4
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	61	3
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	9	0
24. Cement	1	1
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	19	5
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	13	3
V. Metal manufacture	383	19
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	664	430
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	0	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	249	82
56. Textile machinery and accessories	26	1
58. Constructional engineering	29	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	117	11
70. Electrical machinery	5	2
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	227	329
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	11	5
VII. Vehicles	395	43
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	35	3
81. Motor repairers and garages	344	40
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	6	0
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	378	1,277
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	32	4
X. Textiles	1,147	2,295
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	118	577
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	1	6
112. Woollen and worsted	13	9
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	1	2
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	1,004	1,694
123. Textile finishing, etc.	1	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	8	10
XII. Clothing	542	761
140. Tailoring	22	48
141. Dressmaking	0	23
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	518	674
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	583	216
150-162. Food	363	158
163-168. Drink	220	57
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	233	49
170. Timber	35	1
171. Furniture and upholstery	166	47
XV. Paper and printing	122	83
180. Paper and board	0	1
186,189. Printing and publishing	116	49
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	24	14
XVII. Building and contracting	1,774	71
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	289	14
210. Gas	121	2
211. Electricity	127	10
212. Water	41	2
XIX. Transport and communication	1,597	263
220. Railways	453	8
221,222. Road passenger transport	645	152
223. Goods transport by road	295	22
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	6	0
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	178	72
XX. Distributive trades	1,995	1,649
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	115	29
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	69	9
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	173	67
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	671	385
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	130	44
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	792	1,059
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	45	56
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	286	115
XXII. Public administration and defence	724	222
260. National government service	227	102
265. Local government service	497	120
XXIII. Professional services	722	1,120
271. Education	230	311
273. Medical and dental services	317	710
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	525	1,190
280,281. Entertainment and sport	149	124
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	174	570
286. Laundries	37	110
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	5	33
288. Hairdressing and manicure	43	69
290,291. Private domestic service	27	225
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	5	7

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