Interpretation ID: aiam0835
President
Paradise Manufacturing Company
2840 East 26th Street
Los Angeles
CA
90023;
Dear Mr. Bronte: This is in reply to your letter of August 31, 1972, concerning Moto Vehicle Safety Standard No. 302, 'Flammability of Interior Materials.' You ask whether the Standard applies to the shower and matching window curtains you manufacture and sell to manufacturers of mobile homes, trailers, and campers, and whether mobile homes must comply with the requirements of the Standard.; Because Standard No. 302 applies to motor vehicles, the components o vehicle occupant compartments listed in S.4.1 of the Standard are subject to the Standard only when they are installed in a vehicle included under a vehicle class to which the Standard is applicable. Standard No. 302 applies to passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks, and buses. It does not apply to trailers, the vehicle category which includes mobile homes and other towed recreational vehicles, but it does apply to those campers that are constructed on new chassis. Since the only vehicles you list that must meet the requirements of the Standard and that use your curtains are campers constructed on new chassis, the Standard applies only to the curtains used in such campers.; Yours truly, Richard B. Dyson, Assistant Chief Counsel