The Recipe for Success
Bill Buckley's story is one-part engineering genius and one-part enterperneurial spirit.
Bill Buckley is one of 13 children. He was raised on a farm near the small Waikato town of Te Kauwhata, New Zealand. It was on this land that former midget racecar driver Doug Mullins carved out his own racetrack. If ever there was an environment destined to produce someone who’d become a racing and machine nut, this was it.
Bill’s first job after he left school was working for a shipbuilder. At the time, he thought this fulfilled his dream to “build the biggest thing I can think of.” But what he didn’t expect was something he loved even more: Building machines—the most precise equipment he could imagine.
Bill Buckley is one of 13 children. He was raised on a farm near the small Waikato town of Te Kauwhata, New Zealand. It was on this land that former midget racecar driver Doug Mullins carved out his own racetrack. If ever there was an environment destined to produce someone who’d become a racing and machine nut, this was it.
Bill’s first job after he left school was working for a shipbuilder. At the time, he thought this fulfilled his dream to “build the biggest thing I can think of.” But what he didn’t expect was something he loved even more: Building machines—the most precise equipment he could imagine.
“I was always much more interested in the difficult jobs rather than the straightforward ones. That’s why I was so attracted to the magnet business. It’s no good doing what anyone else can do. You have to go after the stuff that is too complicated for the average engineer so you can be Johnny on the spot when the demand hits.”
— Bill Buckley, Founder and Managing Director of Buckley Systems