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|established = 1998
|dissolved = 2018
|location = [[Portola Valley]], [[California]]
|type = [[Museum#military museum|Military museum]]
|director = {{ubl|
*Jacques Littlefield, Founder (d.2009)
*Scott Littlefield, Chairman of the Board
*Bill Boller, President}}
|curator = Dave Marian<ref>{{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 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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The '''Military Vehicle Technology Foundation''' was 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.
==History==
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.<!--This description is lifted word-for-word from the reference.--><ref name=AboutUs>{{cite web |url=http://mvtf.org/about.html |title=About Us |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website=Military Vehicle Technology Foundation (MVTF) |accessdate=11 March 2016}}</ref>
The Foundation was established in early 1998. Littlefield's major objective for the Foundation was to preserve the collection for the future.<ref name=AboutUs /> Over 200 [[armored fighting vehicle]]s are present in the collection
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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crew551.org/#about |title=About Us |date=2012 |website=Venturing Tank Crew 551 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |accessdate=11 March 2016 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601150330/http://crew551.org/ |archivedate=1 June 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Collings Foundation===
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 the new [[American Heritage Museum]] to display the collection at the Collings Foundation headquarters in [[Stow, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{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=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 11 November 2013 |newspaper=The Springfield Republican |agency=AP |accessdate=11 March 2016}}</ref>
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==References==
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