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 East Suffolk AdmC	Lowestoft MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	11,947	4,676
Married women (included in Total)	0	1,420
Employers	383	63
Managers	619	98
Operatives	10,124	4,258
Working on own account	821	257
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	1,205	126
1. Agriculture and horticulture	122	13
II. Mining and quarrying	3	0
10. Coal mining	2	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	21	2
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	2	0
24. Cement	1	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	10	0
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	2	0
V. Metal manufacture	9	1
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	1,151	130
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	831	33
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	83	5
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	10	0
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	76	18
70. Electrical machinery	111	70
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	30	2
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	10	2
VII. Vehicles	1,399	93
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	1,178	70
81. Motor repairers and garages	211	22
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	3	1
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	98	33
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	32	27
X. Textiles	143	264
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	32	83
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	2	3
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	5	0
XII. Clothing	64	99
140. Tailoring	8	18
141. Dressmaking	0	36
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	55	43
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	700	604
150-162. Food	623	598
163-168. Drink	77	6
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	237	13
170. Timber	177	4
171. Furniture and upholstery	19	7
XV. Paper and printing	77	31
180. Paper and board	0	0
186,189. Printing and publishing	76	31
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	20	182
XVII. Building and contracting	1,103	20
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	264	16
210. Gas	123	4
211. Electricity	104	7
212. Water	37	5
XIX. Transport and communication	1,561	120
220. Railways	582	18
221,222. Road passenger transport	215	6
223. Goods transport by road	154	8
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	434	3
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	147	76
XX. Distributive trades	1,848	1,048
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	149	7
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	53	3
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	463	43
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	605	321
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	109	22
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	425	599
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	44	53
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	153	43
XXII. Public administration and defence	822	149
260. National government service	235	86
265. Local government service	587	63
XXIII. Professional services	358	506
271. Education	138	237
273. Medical and dental services	75	199
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	662	1,168
280,281. Entertainment and sport	146	88
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	305	550
286. Laundries	26	122
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	4	26
288. Hairdressing and manicure	46	53
290,291. Private domestic service	56	285
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	2	1

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