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The Military Vehicle Technology Foundation is a large collection of military vehicles located in Portola Valley, California, USA. It was founded in 1975 by Jacques Littlefield, and now is under the direction of Bill Boller.

The first acquisition was an unrestored M3A1 Scout Car. The first two tanks arrived on site in 1983, and by 1988 the collection comprised five armored vehicles. Subsequent military vehicles and associated equipment were acquired from dealers, collectors, or in trade with various museums or government agencies in the United States and abroad. By the middle of the 1990s the collection included examples from almost all historically significant land battles of the last half-century. The oldest armored military vehicle in the collection is a World War I era M1917 light tank.^[2]

The Foundation was established in early 1998. Littlefield's major objective for the Foundation was to preserve the collection for the future.^[2] Over 200 armored fighting vehicles are present in the collection.^[3] The foundation offers tours of its collection. In July 2014, tours were available with a mandatory donation until the inventory was transported to the new museum in Stow.^[4]

In 2012 the foundation started a new program in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America to start the youth Venturing Crew 551. Crew 551's stated goals were to assist in the restoration of vehicles, and to help educate the public through tours and presentations about the significance of armored vehicles throughout history.^[5]

The foundation signed over its collection to the Collings Foundation on July 4, 2013. A year later, the Collings Foundation auctioned off 120 of the vehicles to fund creation of a new museum to display the collection at the Collings Foundation headquarters in Stow, Massachusetts.^[6]

In 2015, the Stow Planning Board questioned the educational merit of the proposed museum. The educational purpose was needed in order to allow the planned {{convert|60000|sqft|adj=on}} museum to be built on land that was zoned for residential use.^[7]^[8] The Planning Board rejected the foundation's application in August 2015^[9] but a settlement was eventually reached in July 2017 and construction of the museum was completed in 2018. The museum held a "preview" opening in October, 2018 and will open fully in April, 2019. ^[10]

The MVTF officially closed for tours in March 25, 2018. The last of the vehicles left the premises on July 30, 2018.^[11]

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1. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123395854437558427 |title=For Big Collector of Tanks, Panzer Was Last Hurrah |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |author=Miller, Stephen |date=7 February 2009 |accessdate=11 March 2016 |subscription=yes}}
2. ^¹{{cite web |url=http://mvtf.org/about.html |title=About Us |author= |date= |website=Military Vehicle Technology Foundation (MVTF) |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.mvtf.org/col_intro.html |title=Introduction to our Collection |author= |date= |website=Military Vehicle Technology Foundation (MVTF) |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://mvtf.org/pub_tours.html |title=Tours: General Public |author= |date= |website=Military Vehicle Technology Foundation (MVTF) |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://crew551.org/#about |title=About Us |date=2012 |website=Venturing Tank Crew 551 |author= |accessdate=11 March 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601150330/http://crew551.org/ |archivedate=1 June 2013 |deadurl=yes}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2013/11/silicon_valley_tank_collection.html |title=Silicon Valley tank collection heading east to The Collings Foundation in Stow |author= |date= 11 November 2013 |newspaper=The Springfield Republican |agency=AP |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
7. ^{{cite news |url=http://stowindependent.com/planning-board-wrestles-with-collings-museum-application-july-29-2015 |title=Planning Board Wrestles with Collings Museum Application ... |author=Needle, Ann |date=29 July 2015 |newspaper=The Stow Independent |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/08/05/plans-for-museum-to-house-the-ex-littlefield-military-vehicle-collection-stalled/ |title=Plans for museum to house the ex-Littlefield military vehicle collection stalled |author=Strohl, Daniel |date=5 August 2015 |newspaper=Hemmings |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/west/2015/08/31/proposed-military-museum-shot-down-stow/QHi10qK0wcftsaUIOfcy8H/story.html |title=Proposed military museum is voted down in Stow |author=Sweeney, Emily |date=31 August 2015 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |accessdate=11 March 2016}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.collingsfoundation.org/american-heritage-museum/|title=Collings Foundation American Heritage Museum|last=|first=|date=23 January 2019|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
11. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20170728/collings-foundation-reaches-settlement-to-build-new-museum |title=Collings Foundation reaches settlement to build new museum |author=Phelps, Jonathan |date=28 July 2017 |newspaper=The MetroWest Daily News |accessdate=3 May 2018}}

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