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Interpretation ID: nht69-1.2

DATE: 08/22/69

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; L. R. Schneider; NHTSA

TO: S. Hoffman, Esq.

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This in further response to your letter of July 14 enclosing an engineering drawing of a hub cap "incorporating a decorative device designed to create an impression of spinning at the center of the wheel during operation of the vehicle", and requesting an interpretation of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 211 with respect thereto.

Standard No. 211 specifies the requirement that hub caps, wheel nuts, and wheel discs shall not incorporate winged projections. That in the sole requirement of this Standard. The drawing submitted by you depicta a hub cap which, in our judgment, incorporates a winged projection. The Standard does not regulate vehicle width, and thus your observation that "it would not broaden or extend the front (or top or rear) profile of automobiles . . ." is not a factor to be considered.

I enclose the engineering drawing you furnished us.