Interpretation ID: aiam1554
Product Safety Engineer
Volvo of America Corporation
Rockleigh
New Jersey 07647;
Dear Mr. Shue:#This is in respond to your June 19, 1974,questio whether required hose labeling under Standard No. 106, *Brake hoses*, permits placing some required labeling on each of several hose sections which are joined together in one vacuum brake line to form the required label. You ask how a 2 3/8-inch section could otherwise be labeled.#It is not permitted under S9.1 to label a vacuum brake hose with only part of the required information, whether or not it appears with all other required labeling in the same brake line.#You state that 5 inches is required to place all labeling on vacuum hose. We do not understand why the legend could not be shortened to 2 3/8-inches or less. There is no width requirement for lettering and Notice 11 now permits labeling information to appear in any order on the hose to simplify cutting.#Please write again if we have misunderstood the problem you have posed.#Yours truly,Richard B. Dyson,Assistant Chief Counsel;