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 Carmarthenshire AdmC	Llanelli UD/MB

INDUSTRY	Males. [1]	Females. [2]
TOTAL - ALL INDUSTRIES	12,882	4,154
Married women (included in Total)	0	1,210
Employers	281	53
Managers	345	109
Operatives	11,650	3,775
Working on own account	606	217
I. Agriculture, forestry, fishing	34	5
1. Agriculture and horticulture	30	5
II. Mining and quarrying	25	0
10. Coal mining	24	0
11-19. Other mining and quarrying	1	0
III. Ceramics, glass, cement, etc.	38	5
20. Bricks and fireclay goods	21	4
24. Cement	0	0
IV. Chemicals and allied trades	28	14
30,31,33. Coke ovens, chemicals and explosives	17	9
V. Metal manufacture	3,492	420
VI. Engineering, shipbuilding and electrical goods	740	30
50,51. Shipbuilding, marine engineering	1	0
54. Machine tools and engineers' small tools	0	0
56. Textile machinery and accessories	0	0
58. Constructional engineering	204	3
52,53,55,57,69. Other mechanical engineering	463	24
70. Electrical machinery	40	2
73,74. Wireless apparatus, valves and lamps	6	0
71,72,75,79. Other electrical engineering	26	1
VII. Vehicles	238	19
80. Manufacture of motor vehicles and cycles	14	3
81. Motor repairers and garages	87	8
82,83. Manufacture of aircraft; vehicle parts	9	7
VIII. Metal goods not elsewhere specified	512	366
IX. Precision instruments, jewellery, etc.	114	85
X. Textiles	6	3
110. Cotton spinning, doubling, etc.	0	0
111. Cotton weaving, etc.	0	0
112. Woollen and worsted	1	0
113,114. Rayon, etc. production, weaving; silk	0	0
118. Hosiery, and other knitted goods	0	0
123. Textile finishing, etc.	0	0
XI. Leather, leather goods and fur	5	1
XII. Clothing	54	60
140. Tailoring	17	30
141. Dressmaking	0	21
148,149. Boot and shoe making and repairing	35	2
XIII. Food, drink and tobacco	358	121
150-162. Food	199	66
163-168. Drink	159	55
XIV. Manufactures of wood and cork	83	10
170. Timber	43	2
171. Furniture and upholstery	22	6
XV. Paper and printing	70	33
180. Paper and board	0	0
186,189. Printing and publishing	63	17
XVI. Other manufacturing industries	12	1
XVII. Building and contracting	2,353	31
XVIII. Gas, electricity and water	402	17
210. Gas	89	3
211. Electricity	305	14
212. Water	8	0
XIX. Transport and communication	1,433	95
220. Railways	886	17
221,222. Road passenger transport	274	13
223. Goods transport by road	40	0
224-226. Sea transport, port service, etc.	70	4
228. Postal, telegraph, wireless communication	149	57
XX. Distributive trades	1,288	1,226
240. Dealing In coal, builders' materials, etc.	119	28
241. Dealing in other Industrial materials	129	19
242. Wholesale distribution of food and drink	103	27
243. Retail distribution of food and drink	361	348
244. Wholesale distribution of non-food goods	60	32
245. Retail distribution of non-food goods	475	708
246. Retail sales of sweets, tobacco, papers	41	64
XXI. Insurance, banking and finance	175	69
XXII. Public administration and defence	624	143
260. National government service	165	94
265. Local government service	459	49
XXIII. Professional services	430	614
271. Education	146	192
273. Medical and dental services	127	335
XXIV. Miscellaneous services	358	783
280,281. Entertainment and sport	91	84
285. Catering, hotels, etc.	135	396
286. Laundries	10	32
287. Dry cleaning. Job dyeing, etc.	16	57
288. Hairdressing and manicure	36	44
290,291. Private domestic service	19	156
Not stated and Ill-defined industry	10	3

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