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Consumption of Selected Raw Materials

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Table 5

Thousand Tons

1947

1948

1949

1950

Sulphur-for Sulphuric Acid

:

219

267

308

358

Sulphur-Regular(1)

80

87

86

111

Sulphuric Acid(2)

1,357

1,564

1,678

1,817

Copper

350

357

319

334

Zinc

223

223

199

237

Lead(3)

178

188

157

164

Tin

27

25

21

23

Aluminium

159

174

179

181

Cotton

364

436

437

454

Wool(4)

188

221

224

231

Rubber(5)

153

194

184

220

Sawn Softwood (thousand standards)(6) Hardwood (million cubic feet)

979

1,111

1,150

1,031

57

61

72

97

Pulp and Paperboard(7)

2,165

2,266

2,684

3,114

(1) Including recovered sulphur.

(2) 100 per cent. acid equivalent.

(3) Excluding English refined lead.

Estimated clean weight.

Natural, including latex.

(6) Excluding sleepers, poles, boxwood, pitwood and pulpwood. (7) Including newsprint, but excluding exports.

Table 6

Output and Employment Indices

i

1946 = 100

1947

1948

1949

1950

All industries covered by Interim Index of

Industrial Production:

Output

108

121

129

140

Employment

¦ ¦

108

111

112

114

Manufacturing industries:

Output

Employment

109

123

132

145

...

107

110

112

115

Table 7

Output of the Metal-using Industries

1947

1948

1949

1950 (provisional)

Index of production (1946

=

100)

Engineering, shipbuilding and

electrical goods

116.

136

140

151

Vehicles

111

121

151

173

Precision instruments, jewellery,

etc.

114

128

155

199

Other metal goods

104

111

114

119

Selected items (numbers)

Cars and chassis...

287,000

334,815

412,290

Commercial vehicles and chassis

154,670

173,302

216,373

522,515 261,157

Steam locomotives

677

Railway wagons

38,115

779 45,520

826 38,379

33,155

Agricultural tractors

57,978

117,038

90,411

120,211

Metal-working machine tools

44,807

44,840

44,104

44,500

Wood-working machine tools

16,057

17,546

17,355

16,150

I.C. engines

222,000

257,000

243,000

315,700

Steam turbo-alternators and tur-

bines ('000 kw.)

...

1,199

1,641

2,255

2,640

Gross Fixed Investment in the United Kingdom, 1948–50

Table &

£ million

1948

1949,

1950

Fuel and power

159

204

241

Transport and communications

286

326

316

Shipping

75

75

81 ·

Manufacturing industry (1)

330

358

376

Agriculture, forestry and fisheries...

80

82

87

New houses

322

284

287

Other social services

71

94

116

Government building (2)

33

31

33

Northern Ireland

Other items (3)

Total

of which:

Plant, againe ani vahigles

New buildings and works

32

43

44

566

623

595

:

1,954

2,120

2,176

793

895

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591

620

685

Repair of buildings and works (3)

570

605

593

(1) Repairs to factory buildings are included under “ other items.” (2) Excluding defence works and buildings.

(3) These estimates are liable to a wide margin of error.

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