founded by william mcculloch (22 october 1832 – 4 april 1909), wm.mcculloch and co., pty. ltd. of melbourne, ran the largest transport business on the murray system between the years 1876 and 1886. among the vessels they owned or operated were steamers "alert", "burrabogie", "corrong", "ethel jackson", "freetrader", "invincible", "lady daly", "little wonder", "murrumbidgee", "pioneer", "princess", "saddler" and "victoria"; and barges "advance", "alice", "berder chief", "canally", "darling", "federation", "gwydir", "horace", "jessie", "namoi", "pelican", "pimpampa", "sarah jane", "shamrock", "swallow" and "willandra". they began divesting their murray properties around 1885 to small operators such as john egge and charley hunt. the business was taken over by cramsie, bowden and co., which was in turn taken over by permewan, wright and co.