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	Bedfordshire AdmC	Ampthill RD Ampthill UD Bedford MB Bedford RD Biggleswade RD Biggleswade UD Dunstable MB Kempston UD Leighton Buzzard UD Luton RD Luton CB/MB Sandy UD

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	108,555	41,532
Married women (included in Total)	0	17,913
Employers	2,757	286
Managers	4,470	919
Operatives	94,526	38,919
Working on own account	6,802	1,408
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	9,788	684
1. Agriculture and horticulture	9,659	684
II. Mining and quarrying	337	9
10. Coal mining	1	1
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	336	8
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	5,865	227
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	4,783	179
24. Cement	419	8
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	1,509	270
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	1,283	196
V. Metal manufacture	2,554	551
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	11,858	4,314
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	19	1
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	500	82
56. Textile machinery and accessories	1	0
58. Constructional engineering	132	2
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	7,663	2,696
70. Electrical machinery	3,004	842
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	333	630
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	206	61
VII. Vehicles	18,465	2,608
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	13,785	1,163
81. Motor repairers and garages	1,414	172
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	3,065	1,257
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	670	242
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	1,772	517
X. Textiles	284	397
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	1	1
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	2	5
112. Woollen and worsted	34	18
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	2	2
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	29	98
123. Textile finishing, etc.	142	87
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	535	165
XII. Clothing	2,924	6,578
140. Tailoring	360	1,055
141. Dressmaking	40	646
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	321	124
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	2,647	1,710
150-162. Food	1,700	1,318
163-168. Drink	672	136
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	873	104
170. Timber	252	30
171. Furniture and upholstery	142	30
XV. Paper and printing	2,179	1,428
180. Paper and board	6	23
186,189. Printing and publishing	1,899	897
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	1,123	681
XVII. Building and contracting	8,457	164
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	2,151	224
210. Gas	758	61
211. Electricity	1,221	157
212. Water	172	6
XIX. Transport and communication	5,220	991
220. Railways	1,512	64
221,222. Road passenger transport	1,316	240
223. Goods transport by road	1,125	70
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	43	3
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	1,022	586
XX. Distributive trades	8,558	5,960
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	980	154
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	467	48
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	429	131
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	2,729	1,851
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	922	289
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	2,766	3,215
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	265	272
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	1,210	490
XXII. Public administration and defence	12,163	1,475
260. National government service	9,454	880
265. Local government service	2,709	595
XXIII. Professional services	3,579	4,661
271. Education	1,344	1,770
273. Medical and dental services	1,136	2,340
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	3,758	7,059
280,281. Entertainment and sport	522	279
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	1,531	3,509
286. Laundries	173	636
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	66	137
288. Hairdressing and manicure	245	383
290,291. Private domestic service	520	1,962
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	76	23

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

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

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