1955 Table of 50 Largest Employers
From Graces Guide
From 'A Business History of Britain 1900-1990s' by David J. Jeremy. OUP 1998. ISBN 0198773765
- British Transport Commission - 801,199 employees
- National Coal Board - 704,000
- General Post Office - 337,465
- British Electricity Authority - 190,022
- Gas Council - 143,378
- Imperial Chemical Industries - 115,306
- Associated Electrical Industries - 87,000
- Hawker Siddeley Group - 75,000
- Vickers - 70,000
- British Electric Traction Co - 70,000
- Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds
- General Electric Co
- Great Universal Stores
- F. W. Woolworth
- Co-operative Wholesale Society
- Unilever - 50,287
- Dunlop Rubber Co - 50,000
- Joseph Lucas Industries - 45,000
- Stewarts and Lloyds - 42,000
- British Insulated Callender's Cables - 39,000
- English Electric Co - 39,000
- Rolls-Royce - 37,500
- Boots Pure Drug Co - 35,938
- J. Lyons and Co
- United Steel Companies - 34,785
- Tube Investments - 32,000
- Harland and Wolff -32,000
- Home and Colonial Stores
- Dorman, Long and Co - 31,000
- Marks and Spencer
- Rank Organisation / Odeon Theatres
- De Havilland Aircraft Co - 25,990
- Shell Transport and Trading Co
- Richard Thomas and Baldwins - 25,500
- Courtaulds
- Imperial Tobacco Co
- Metal Box Co - 24,818
- Ford Motor Co - 24,773
- British Motor Corporation - 23,000
- Standard Telephones and Cables - 22,900
- British Petroleum - 22,212
- Allied Bakeries - 22,000
- George Wimpey and Co - 22,000
- Montague Burton - 22,000
- Bristol Aeroplane Co - 21,000
- Steel Company of Wales - 20,750
- Pilkington Brothers - 20,302
- Barclays Bank
- Cadbury Brothers - 20,000
- Sears Holdings
Total of employees in the Top 50 companies: 3,910,913 persons
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