About Our Business

Family-Owned & Operated

IRELAND’S MACHINERY BEGAN IN 1950 as W.H.IRELAND & SONS

The first major expansion of W.H.IRELAND & SONS took place in 1960 when Ireland’s went “across the road” to a new Caltex Service Station's machinery showroom and used machinery display area.

Built at a cost of 10-thousand pounds, it took place 10 years after the late Bill Ireland and his wife Jean and 2 children arrived from Penrith in 1950. They later had two more sons born in Bowral. Bill Ireland’s principles of family unity have borne fruit with his son Tony and his wife Sue, who took over the business when Bill retired.

Moving into the used agricultural machinery field (initially with a reversible horse drawn road plough), followed by new equipment from H.V. McKay – Massey Harris and the Horwood Bagshaw range of equipment through the 1950s and into the 1960s, the Ireland’s were noted for hay baling and hay handling machines, particularly New Holland equipment with whom they had a very long association with. In those days, there were probably 20 contractors working around the district, all using New Holland equipment. Major tractor and tillage dealerships were held, as well as a big business in used machinery.

Number One Brand

In 2011, the Ireland’s replaced the Husqvarna range of products with the World’s NUMBER ONE BRAND of chainsaws and allied equipment, STIHL, which has proved to be an excellent change. In 2015, Ireland’s Machinery was elevated to an “ELITE” STIHL dealer, currently one of only nine in Australia.

The hire plant division was sold in 1994 to the Wallis Family to make way for the construction of the 24-Hour Caltex Star Shop Convenience Store, which was remodelled in 2000 to its present state, known as Ireland’s Corner 24.