ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Growth of British Industrial Estates, 1900-1939 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:5191</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigator</H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Scott, P.<br>University of Reading. Department of Management<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> August 2005 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Scott, P., <i> Growth of British Industrial Estates, 1900-1939</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], August 2005. SN: 5191, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5191-1 </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> : Scott, P. University of Reading. </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 5191 . Growth of British Industrial Estates, 1900-1939<br> </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Scott, P. , University of Reading. Department of Management</h5> <h3>Principal Investigator:</h3> <h5>Scott, P. , University of Reading. Department of Management</h5> </H5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>During the last two decades research on industrial districts, flexible specialisation, and high-tech regions has highlighted the importance of the local business environment to successful industrial development. Nineteenth century Britain developed a series of specialised industrial districts, providing pools of skilled labour, highly developed ancillary trades and services, networks of cooperative subcontracting relationships, and (in some cases) rented factory accommodation including power and utilities. However, the 'new' industries of the 'second industrial revolution', tended to locate outside such districts, in new 'green field' industrial areas. These often involved a new, more formally constituted, form of industrial agglomeration - the industrial or 'trading' estate. Closely associated with the rise of electric power and the internal combustion engine, and highly concentrated in the South East, industrial estates rapidly expanded to accommodate plants employing around 285,000 people by 1939, including some of Britain's best known companies such as Ford, HMV, Hoover, Lever Brothers, Mars, and Metropolitan Vickers. Despite considerable contemporary interest in their development, there has been little academic analysis of the general growth of pre-1939 industrial estates. This may be due, at least in part, to the paucity of quantitative and other evidence regarding their early development.<br> <br> The main aims and objectives of the research project from which this dataset arose were:<br> (1) To asses the contribution of industrial estates to the growth and location of new manufacturing enterprises in interwar Britain;<br> (2) To examine the ways in which location of interwar industrial estates boosted firm growth;<br> (3) To explore the contribution of industrial estates to fostering locational externalities for the firms which located on them;<br> (4) To examine the regional impact of industrial estate development.<br> <br> <br></h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>This dataset provides estimates of the number of industrial estates established in Britain, their locations, the companies or other institutions that developed them, and the number of employees working in them at several 'benchmark' dates. Evidence is drawn from contemporary published and unpublished studies, company, government, and local archives and other sources.<br> <br> Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.<br></h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'> Time Period Covered:</i> 1900 - 1939 <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> Digital files created between 1994-2001 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> Great Britain <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> no information recorded <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Institutions/organisations <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Textual data; Alpha/numeric data </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Industrial Estates in Great Britain, 1900-1939 </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study<br> Covering the years, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1927, 1932 and 1939 <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> No sampling (total universe) <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> 65 <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Compilation or synthesis of existing material <br><i class='myclass'>Data Sources: </i> See study documentation <br><i class='myclass'>Weighting: </i> not applicable </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> History Data Service, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: hds@essex.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 10 August 2005<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> : Scott, P. University of Reading.</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>4 January 2012</h5> </body></html>