Mazda Dealer Profile Max Kirwan Mazda Preston Victoria Australia

Monday September 3, 2007, posted by Staff

Max Kirwan Mazda is one of Australia’s longest standing Mazda Dealerships. In addition the Kirwan family, who own and operate the business, have been in the retail automotive business since the 1940’s.
114-126 Bell Street
PRESTON VIC 3072
Phone: 03 – 9480 3555
Fax: 03 – 9484 6650

The company was founded by Max Kirwan Snr. who used his Army severance pay to purchase a handful of ex army trucks at an auction in Darwin in 1946. At the time there was a shortage of trucks in Melbourne as most had been moved north to support the war effort.

The only way to get vehicles to Melbourne from Darwin was to either ship them around the West Australian coastline or drive them through the Red centre of Australia. As shipping was very expensive and the drive through the Australian outback was filled with danger most people did not give the idea a second thought.

Apart from owning your own home, a young Max Kirwan believed that owning your own business was a part of the great Australian dream. He had seen much hardship through the depression and ensuing war years and together with the rest of his working class family he had worked hard to provide himself with enough money to “try his luck” and embark on his quest to start his own business.

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