J. & J. E. Dixon
John Cooke Dixon (born at Retford, Nottinghamshire) and his son, John Ernest Dixon (1891-1970) were newspaper advertising canvassers. By 1921, J. & J. E. Dixon was operating an agency at 142 Oakbrook Road, Sheffield (John Ernest’s home address). They later formed Stainless Utilities (‘stainless steel specialists’) at Oakbrook Road, but this was bankrupt in 1932 (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 22 December 1932). In the Register of England & Wales (1939), John Ernest and his son, John Laurence....
