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Net Fixed Assets in the UK: 1850-1910

(1900 prices Million pounds)
Sector
1850
1900
1910
Trams and Light Railwarys
--
15
42
Post and Telecommunicaitons 0.8
17.7
31.9
Railways
202
616
651
Electricity Supply
--
21
45
Water Supply
10.6
93.4
121.3
Gas Supply
7.1
45.5
58
Manufacturing
165.7
478.7
680
UK total
1,229
3,515
4,324
Source: Foreman-Peck James and Millward Robert (1994), Public and Private Ownership of British Industry; 1820-1990, Clarendon Press, Oxford, p. 2

 

Sectoral Distribuion of Net Fixed Assets in the UK: 1850-1960

(% of the UK Total)
Year
Network Industries
(transport, communications, gas, electricty & water)
Manufacturing
1850
17.9
13.5
1900
23
13.6
1910
21.9
15.7
1930
30.5
16
1960
23.6
22.6
Source: Foreman-Peck James and Millward Robert (1994), Public and Private Ownership of British Industry; 1820-1990, Clarendon Press, Oxford, p. 3

 

Precentage of Empolyment in State Owned Entreprises:

cross-national compraison, 1978
Country
Electricity, Gas & Water)
Iron and Steel
Shipbuilding
Motor vehicle Manufc.
Industrial Chemicals
Tobacco
Glass and glass products
UK
95
100
95
46
0
0
0
Germany
25
22
20
41
0
0
19.5
France
80
--
--
25
3
85
--
Belgium
18
0.2
0.1
0.2
0.2
0
1.0
USA
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
Denmark
60
30
0
0
0
0
0
Italy
93
75
70
14
16
5
34

Source: Foreman-Peck James and Millward Robert (1994), Public and Private Ownership of British Industry; 1820-1990, Clarendon Press, Oxford, p. 8. Take from the CEEP Review 1981 (European Center for Public Enterprise), Public Enterpirse in the European Community

 

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