Detaildave:
Spardo you my know my dad as he used to work for dixons of derby,whilst he were there he mainly drove a F7 daycab unit as i remember(but i were very young) can still remember the reg though suprisingly CUT 195T my dads Robert or "Bob" Horton,i have some happy memories myself of them days as it were regular a laugh if a few trucks were running together,other names familiar to ya may be pocko (mick poxon) and Les parker (had an afghan hound he used to take with him in the truck),geoff murdoch, Mick jowitt,■■■■ North therell be plenty of others.
Your probably the reason i joined the forum as ive spent ages browsing this forum for old truck pics then i stumbled on the saviem and f86 youd posted somewhere of dixons, now i couldnt remember the saviem/s(not sure wether there were 2) being green i thought there were a blue one that the driver had customised with lights across the top/ sun visor and cb radio(which i think would have been AM at that time).
Suprising what i remember of dixons to say id be around 6yrs old at the time i just wish my dad had took some pics of the trucks back then,i can even remember the berliets arriving lol im 41 now,still love trucks (well the old ones anyway) By the way my dads still driving artics…4 days a wk for NFT on fridges.(still does 60 odd hours though)
Blimey, 8 and a half years between posts. 
I was just about to answer the original when I saw that I already had.
The years have blighted my memory Detaildave, some of those names are familiar but then I knew other people with them so that may be the reason. I knew a Bob Horton at Courtauld’s at Bulwell where I was TM, but he wasn’t a driver. I knew a Kit Poxon, but she was a girl 
, and Adrian Poxon, again not a driver. Frank Parker was in the office at Philip Smith’s, a good bloke and turned out to grass before his time. ■■■■ North is also familiar, but then I knew a ■■■■ East at Ilkeston Haulage, so that may be fuddling my mind. 
Know what you mean about the photos though. I did have a camera in those days but hardly took a single pic myself, and that included overland to India, in a bus, and road trains in the Northern Territory. In fact, airlifting to Oz from Delhi I left the camera in storage to save weight. 
Oscar and Brian Dixon were a right pair though. Oscar ran the transport and Brian the sales, and always seemed to disagree on policy. Oscar wanted to run Volvos while Brian had the Saviem concession. You could imagine the boardroom tussles that produced. I worked for both of them, tipping for Oscar and fetching new trailers on a trade plated F86 from Dereham for Brian. Add to that mix Maurice Braddock and his 2 tippers and it certainly was a lively time.
Marshalls figured in my life too. When I was TM at Courtauld/Toray we ran a double night trunk to Hyde. The driver couldn’t swap trailers in our place because the narrow entrance road was parked up with cars at night so we used Dawsonrental’s yard in Marshalls. One of the directors saw them one day and went spare because Dawson’s hadn’t asked permission. He relented when he learnt from his TM that I was subbing work to him. 
One firm that I didn’t mention in my original post was Clearways. One of my ex drivers from Toray later worked there, Paul Evans, then went to K&M at Hucknall. Clearways was born after a chap called Dean bought a share in an old friend of mine’s company, W.E. Andrew and Son. Bill Andrew was a good friend, I worked for him when I came back from Oz and later subbed work from him when my brother and I had our own company. He offered to sell us a Leyland Redline tractor and 33 foot dropframe van for £500. £100 down and £100 a month for 4 months. We turned him down because it had a Scammell automatic coupling but we couldn’t really afford it anyway. When he retired he sold the rest of the business to Dean and the name was later changed. His son Chris Dean ran it after he retired.
