ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with regional localisation tendencies in a selection of industries and industrial groups, and with developments observable in these tendencies in the 1960s. Shift analysis suggests that, if the regional evolution of the chemical industries in the 1970s follows the pattern of the 1960s, the positive employment biases displayed by Zeeland and Limburg will continue to increase. Although the group is essentially widespread, a number of significant regional contrasts emerge when its individual industries are considered separately. These contrasts spring from the relationship between the West and the remainder of the country. In contrast, although a major branch of the aircraft industry is located at Schiphol Airport, the remaining vehicle industries are generally biased away from the West and towards the South. In 1961 slightly more than half the total employment of the clothing industry was to be found in the three provinces of North Holland, North Brabant and Overijssel.
