The Continental De Vaux was an automobile produced by the Continental Motors Corporation; assembly of the vehicles occurred in Oakland, California. Continental assummed control of the De Vaux Motors Company in 1932, and continued building De Vaux designed cars under Continental's corporated identity. The final Continental De Vaux produced was a 1934 model. Aerial view looking west over downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt and the Port of Oakland in the upper left portion of the image. ... The De Vaux (deVoe) was an automobile produced by the De Vaux Motors Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Oakland, California (USA). ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...
In 1850, Vaux exhibited a collection of his continental landscape watercolors, and it was this gallery that captured the attention of American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
Vaux took over the company and his later work in Central Park was to be a fitting memorial to his late partner.
In 1872, Vaux dissolved the partnership and went on to building architecture, in a partnership with George Kent Radford and Samuel Parsons, Jr.