![]() ![]() While some are quite worn, many have been meticulously restored.Īlthough proposals have been made, there is currently no federal historic military vehicle museum in the U.S., and only a few significant private collections.īill Boller, president of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, said the Littlefield family opted to give the collection to the Collings Foundation so that more people could visit it. The oldest armored military vehicle in the collection is a World War I era M1917 light tank. The collection was assembled by Jacques Littlefield, a Stanford University graduate who left Hewlett Packard ( HPQ) in the 1970s to focus on collecting and restoring military vehicles. ![]() “They’ll start in the World War I trenches and go forward through time,” he said. history through a chronological walk past the remaining 80 historic military vehicles. ![]() Eventually he hopes visitors can learn U.S. Until now, the $30 million fleet of tanks has been refurbished and housed in seven storage sheds on a family estate up a winding, forested road above Silicon Valley they are visited only under privately arranged tours.īut in a deal inked on July 4 and announced Monday in honor of Veteran’s Day, the 240 pieces have been signed over to The Collings Foundation, which preserves historical military aircraft and now plans to add a new military vehicle museum at its Stow, Mass., headquarters.įoundation director Rob Collings said the organization hopes to raise $10 million to build the museum by auctioning 160 of the military vehicles in August 2014. SAN JOSE - The family of a Silicon Valley engineer who amassed one of the nation’s most extensive historic military vehicle collections is giving the tanks, missile launchers and armored vehicles to a Massachusetts-based museum that will preserve and display some of them. ![]()
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