He worked for Hewlett Packard for five years as a manufacturing engineer before focusing solely on building his museum and restoration facility. He grew up in Burlingame and attended Norma Moore Grade School in Burlingame, the Carey School in San Mateo, and the Cate School in Carpinteria before studying at Stanford University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1971 and an MBA two years later. In 1998 he set up the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation to manage his collection of over 150 vehicles and restore more. He obtained his first full-size military vehicle in 1975, a World War II era M3 Scout Car. In college he built his first remote control scale model tank. Littlefield's fascination with military vehicles started as a child, when he started building plastic models of them. His father was CEO of Utah Construction Company, his mother is a strong supporter of the arts and a member of the Chairman's Council of the San Francisco Opera. He was the son of Edmund Wattis Littlefield and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield. Littlefield was born on November 21, 1949, in San Francisco, California. He had over 220 military vehicles to his name.īiography Littlefield shows some of his tanks to visiting students from the Woodside Priory School, May 2004.
Jacques Littlefield collected many vintage military vehicles including a Panther tank, several M4 Sherman tanks, a SS-1 Scud launcher, and a propeller of the ship Lusitania. Jacques Littlefield (Novem– January 7, 2009) was the founder of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation (MVTF), also called the Littlefield collection.
Military vehicle collector, philanthropist, engineer
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