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	Gloucestershire AdmC	Bristol CB/MB Charlton Kings UD Cheltenham MB Cheltenham RD Cirencester UD Cirencester RD Dursley RD East Dean RD Gloucester CB Gloucester RD Kingswood UD Lydney RD Mangotsfield UD Nailsworth UD Newent RD North Cotswold RD Northleach RD Sodbury RD Stroud RD Stroud UD Tetbury RD Tewkesbury MB Thornbury RD Warmley RD West Dean RD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	293,946	120,341
Married women (included in Total)	0	43,044
Employers	7,524	1,060
Managers	13,087	2,705
Operatives	255,552	112,055
Working on own account	17,783	4,521
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	17,812	1,727
1. Agriculture and horticulture	16,930	1,665
II. Mining and quarrying	5,118	127
10. Coal mining	3,828	84
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1,290	43
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	2,456	423
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	875	38
24. Cement	26	12
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	4,884	2,043
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	2,182	451
V. Metal manufacture	4,548	438
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	22,655	4,223
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	1,616	50
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	1,004	175
56. Textile machinery and accessories	90	35
58. Constructional engineering	3,019	320
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	13,833	2,417
70. Electrical machinery	1,247	476
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	335	73
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	1,511	677
VII. Vehicles	36,808	4,554
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	3,570	314
81. Motor repairers and garages	6,003	585
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	24,957	3,558
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	3,877	1,478
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	2,358	1,073
X. Textiles	1,853	1,991
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	8	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	5	7
112. Woollen and worsted	675	787
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	8	5
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	21	69
123. Textile finishing, etc.	13	1
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	657	217
XII. Clothing	3,678	5,597
140. Tailoring	1,082	2,386
141. Dressmaking	12	506
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	2,356	1,402
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	14,080	9,319
150-162. Food	7,938	4,133
163-168. Drink	2,272	863
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	6,513	1,389
170. Timber	1,513	310
171. Furniture and upholstery	2,306	536
XV. Paper and printing	11,364	7,010
180. Paper and board	2,463	623
186,189. Printing and publishing	4,818	2,421
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	1,768	1,093
XVII. Building and contracting	26,305	636
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	6,510	778
210. Gas	2,773	190
211. Electricity	3,114	545
212. Water	623	43
XIX. Transport and communication	32,725	4,157
220. Railways	10,385	546
221,222. Road passenger transport	5,317	594
223. Goods transport by road	3,612	220
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	6,088	201
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	5,200	2,210
XX. Distributive trades	31,152	20,847
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	3,377	802
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	2,327	417
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	2,627	1,001
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	8,578	5,890
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	4,567	1,405
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	8,706	10,298
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	970	1,034
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	4,493	2,320
XXII. Public administration and defence	27,281	5,843
260. National government service	17,544	4,105
265. Local government service	9,737	1,738
XXIII. Professional services	12,984	18,533
271. Education	4,470	6,986
273. Medical and dental services	4,326	9,403
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	11,758	24,348
280,281. Entertainment and sport	1,718	1,122
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	4,483	10,956
286. Laundries	515	1,794
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	280	588
288. Hairdressing and manicure	698	1,015
290,291. Private domestic service	2,555	7,906
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	309	177

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

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

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