The records of civil registration in England & Wales which commenced on 1 July 1837, relate to the birth, marriage and death of an individual. In Scotland records began in 1855 and in Ireland in 1864 (n.b. Irish non-Catholic marriages were recorded from 1845).
With the shift lever in D (Drive), the tap shift controls will activate a temporary tap manual shift mode, allowing the transmission to be manually shifted. Automatic shifts return after no manual shifts have been done for seven to 10 second.
Hydraulic or electric actuators will shift between the gears automatically. A CVT is a type of automatic transmission, in that no intervention by the driver is needed. The basic principle is to have two pulleys that can change size, and hence the gear ratio. This way, there are no fixed steps, and the gear ratio can be changed smoothly between the low and high limits.