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Interpretation ID: nht72-1.8

DATE: 04/11/72

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; R. B. Dyson; NHTSA

TO: GGO Group, Inc.

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of April 3, 1972, to Mr. Schneider asking whether your Gemini Tow Control System would come under our regulations, and whether you would be considered a brake manufacturer.

The Federal motor vehicle safety standard covering vehicle hydraulic brake systems, Standard No. 105, applies only to passenger cars (not directly to equipment manufacturers), and does not cover the hydraulic braking relationship between towing and towed vehicles. For that reason the Gemini system would not be regulated by Standard No. 105. There are no Federal standards applicable to a tow control system per se.

We would, however, view you as a "manufacturer," and the product you have described as "motor vehicle equipment," within the remaining of the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1965.