Interpretation ID: aiam1939
Executive Vice President
Wesbar Corporation
P. O. Box 577
West Bend
WI 53095;
Dear Mr. Weber: This is in reply to your letter of May 13, 1975, requesting a interpretation of paragraph S4.4.1 of Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108 as it applies to a described lamp design.; In pertinent part, S4.4.1 states that 'no clearance lamp may b combined optically with any taillamp.' The lamp design that interests you has separate compartments for the taillamp and for the clearance lamp. You are concerned that at a distance it will be difficult to distinguish the two lamps, and you feel that this violates the spirit of S4.4.1.; We have no objection to the design of this lamp. Since the clearanc lamp and taillamp are in separate compartments and not optically combined, and since Standard No. 108 does not specify a minimum separation distance between the two lamps, the lamp design foes not violate S4.4.1.; Sincerely, James C. Schultz, Chief Counsel