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Interpretation ID: nht71-1.9

DATE: 03/09/71

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; R. H. Compton; NHTSA

TO: Truck Body and Equipment Association, Inc.

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of February 23, 1971, to Mr. Julian B. Leysath of this office requesting an interpretation on the mounting location of rear clearance lamps on slant-sided beverage truck bodies.

Rear clearance lamps mounted on the outermost top corners of the body, as indicated on the TBEA diagram, adequately meet the location requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108.