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The Maxol Story

The Maxol Story

By: Turtle Bunbury
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 Founded in 1920, the family-owned Maxol Group is one of the biggest energy providers in Ireland. In this podcast series, historian Turtle Bunbury charts a story of ingenuity, adversity and fortitude from the earliest years of the McMullan family through global wars, oil crises and economic hardship to the present-day challenges of climate change, Covid 19 and technological advance.©turtlebunburyhistories2022 Economics World
Episodes
  • Chapter 1: Genesis

    Chapter 1: Genesis
    Sep 29 2021
    A sensational bigamy trial and a historical interest in kelp are among the tales told in this first episode, which explores the back-story of the McMullan family from the plantations of the 17th century through until the birth of Maxol’s founders.
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    12 mins
  • Chapter 2: Fuel

    Chapter 2: Fuel
    Sep 29 2021
    Remarkable ties with Michael Collins, the tragedy of the Somme and the evolution of the motor car industry form the backdrop as we follow founding father William McMullan from the 1903 Gordon Bennett Cup Race through to his ingenious contract with the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Company at the end of the Great War.
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    25 mins
  • Chapter 3: Roar

    Chapter 3: Roar
    Sep 29 2021
    McMullan Brothers is born into a world of pogroms, riots, partition, and civil war; the directors hold their nerve and are running the biggest motor fleet in Ireland by the mid-20s. There are pay-rises all round but the relationship between the McMullan brothers reaches boiling point.
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    11 mins
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