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Silicon Valley Tank Collection Heading East
SAN JOSE, Calif. November 10, 2013 (AP)
By MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer
Associated Press
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.
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.
But 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.
Read more:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/silicon-valley-tank-collection-heading-east-20842475
Many photographs............Scroll way down:
http://www.mishalov.com/littlefield-6jan07/
SAN JOSE, Calif. November 10, 2013 (AP)
By MARTHA MENDOZA AP National Writer
Associated Press
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.
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.
But 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.
Read more:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/silicon-valley-tank-collection-heading-east-20842475
Many photographs............Scroll way down:
http://www.mishalov.com/littlefield-6jan07/
