On Wednesday 17 Mar 2004 13:03, Joy Hecht wrote:

> Don't know about Japan or special licenses for automatics - but a
> British friend was just telling me that somewhere in Europe (I forgot
> where, of course) you can't drive a manual with a license for an
> automatic, and licenses for automatics are roughly  one step up from
> learner's permits.

That would be Britain, then ;-)

If you take your test in an automatic here, you're restricted to driving
automatics. Take your test in a manual, you may drive either automatic or
manual box.
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Tim
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