Carlo Salteri and Roslyn Cameron-Salteri Archive, 1690?, 1860-2011

MLMSS 8564
VT 1464-1471

fonds

1690?, 1860-2011

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Moving Images, Photographs, Medals, Badges

978209

1.93 metres of textual material (1 box and 3 outsize boxes) - 106 photographs (2 boxes); 8 videorecordings and 1 DVD (1 box and 1 folder); 7 medals, 5 lapel badges, 2 ribbon bars, 4 ribbons and 2 badges (1 box): ;

Carlo Salteri was a co-founder of one of Australia's most successful engineering and construction companies, Transfield Pty Ltd. His father, Dottore Giuseppe Salteri, a director of a Milan bank, married his cousin, Flavia Vigna in 1919. Carlo was born in Milan, Italy in 1920. He was the oldest of four children. His maternal grandfather Angelo Giuseppe Vigna was a noted engineer and was the project manager for the first autostrada in Italy - the Lakes Highway, built from Milan to Varese in 1924. Influenced by his grandfather, Carlo began studying engineering in Milan in 1940. His studies were interrupted when he was conscripted into the Italian army in October 1942. He eventually graduated from the Politecnico in 1946, with a doctorate in mechanical engineering.

He came to Australia in 1951 as one of two engineers sent by an Italian firm to build electrical transmission towers from Tallawarra to Homebush in Sydney. In 1956 he and the other engineer for this project, Franco Belgiorno-Nettis (1915-2006) migrated to Australia with their families and formed their own engineering company Transfield Pty Ltd that undertook major engineering projects such as building dams, coal power stations, bridges, tunnels and powerlines. Two major achievements included the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and the Brisbane Gateway Bridge. By 1994 Transfield had 6,000 employees and an annual turnover of $1.3 billion. In 1996 the two men dissolved the partnership: the Belgiorno-Nettis family kept the name Transfield and the construction operations, while the Salteri family retained the North Sydney Headquarters and defence operations, renaming their company Tenix.

Carlo was first married to Renata Schirru with whom he had 4 children and he later married Roslyn Cameron.

In 1987 he was awarded membership of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) and in 1999, made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. In 2002 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for service as a leader in industrial and technological development in Australia, to the engineering, construction and manufacturing industries, and to the community through a range of artistic, cultural and health-related organisations.

Salteri established the Tenix Foundation and the Carlo and Roslyn Salteri Foundation and was a patron of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

He died at the Mater Hospital in Sydney in October 2010.

Source:
Library Correspondence File

SERIES 01
Carlo Salteri and Roslyn Cameron-Salteri archive guides and legal documents, 1993-2010

SERIES 02
Carlo Salteri honours and awards, 1946-2002

SERIES 03
Salteri family correspondence 1920-2009

SERIES 04
Carlo Salteri records relating to his death, 2010-2011

SERIES 05
Salteri family photographs, c. 1860-2008

SERIES 06
Salteri family miscellanea, 1876-1998

SERIES 07
Carlo Salteri printed publications, 1690?-2009

SERIES 08
Carlo Salteri videorecordings, 1989-2005

SERIES 09
Carlo Salteri medals and badges, 1968-2002

This collection comprises nine series, arranged by Kenneth Smith.

Paper guide to this collection held at MLMSS 8564/1 -

Prior to deposit with the State Library of NSW, this collection was arranged and described by Kenneth Smith on behalf of Carlo and Roslyn Cameron-Salteri, 2011

The Carlo Salteri Archive is not held by the State Library of NSW, and is currently housed at the head office of Tenix in North Sydney. The Guide to that Archive is housed at MLMSS 8564/1