The Vauxhall Cadet is an automobile produced by Vauxhall from 1930 to 1933.

It was an entirely new model announced by Vauxhall on 6 October 1930.

The first Vauxhall priced below £300, it was intended to supplement the existing 24 h.p.

20-60 thereafter to be known as the Vauxhall Eighty.

When exported it was usually supplied with a 27 h.p.

engine and named VX.

The first truly new Vauxhall since General Motors' purchase of the business in 1925, it was an American-style car with certain local amendments.

The mascot on the Cadet's radiator cap became the (two-dimensional) BOAC Speedbird logo The first British car fitted with a gear-box "embodying the now famous Synchro-Mesh principle", a system of gear change making every driver an expert.

Providing a faultless shift-speed operation it was fitted to all Cadets from late 1931.

For 1933 detailed refinements were made to provide more comfort and better appearance, "the bodies are more imposing and the cars look lower".

Bonnet flutes...