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An Engineer’s Story is one of adventure and achievement. It is the story of Malcolm McNeall, a policeman’s son, who became an engineer, a businessman, a grazier, an occasional pianist, and a philanthropist who valued integrity above all.
Driven to seek experiences that would broaden his horizons, after completing his engineering degree at the Department of Railways NSW in 1953, Malcolm worked in Malaya, Canada, and the United States, then returned to Australia to start his family.
Malcolm attributed his success to appointing ‘the right staff’ and to inspiring and training his recruits to become expert engineers and businesspeople. Sylvia McNeall’s book tells of her husband's life as a successful owner of several businesses and three significant rural New South Wales properties. But also his good fortune to have a large, close-knit family, including a son, also an engineer who took on many business responsibilities, and a daughter who loved living on and operating the rural properties.
184 pages / 234x156 mm / Paperback / 978-1-7644072-6-7 / March 2026
An Engineer’s Story is one of adventure and achievement. It is the story of Malcolm McNeall, a policeman’s son, who became an engineer, a businessman, a grazier, an occasional pianist, and a philanthropist who valued integrity above all.
Driven to seek experiences that would broaden his horizons, after completing his engineering degree at the Department of Railways NSW in 1953, Malcolm worked in Malaya, Canada, and the United States, then returned to Australia to start his family.
Malcolm attributed his success to appointing ‘the right staff’ and to inspiring and training his recruits to become expert engineers and businesspeople. Sylvia McNeall’s book tells of her husband's life as a successful owner of several businesses and three significant rural New South Wales properties. But also his good fortune to have a large, close-knit family, including a son, also an engineer who took on many business responsibilities, and a daughter who loved living on and operating the rural properties.
184 pages / 234x156 mm / Paperback / 978-1-7644072-6-7 / March 2026
