Interpretation ID: aiam0173
Esq.
Attorney at Law
270 Park Avenue
New York
New York 10017;
Dear Mr. Hoffman: This in further response to your letter of July 14 enclosing a 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 is the sole requirement of this Standard. The drawing submitted by you depicts a hub cap which, in our judgement, 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 (sic) the engineering drawing you furnished us. Sincerely, Lawrence R. Schneider, Acting Assistant Chief Counsel fo Regulations;