Interpretation ID: nht71-5.14

DATE: 12/06/71

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; Richard B. Dyson; NHTSA

TO: Seats, Inc.

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of October 4, 1971, in which you asked our opinion as to whether Standard No. 207 permits a suspension type truck seat with fore and aft adjustment to be equipped with seat belt type webbing from the seat to the floor. It is our position that such webbing may be used to provide the strength required by Standard No. 207 and that a seat so equipped must conform to S4.2(c) of the standard (unless, as seems unlikely, the occupant's seat belt is anchored to the floor and not to the seat). Instructions for the adjustment of the seat to floor webbing are essential to the safe operation of such a system, however, and should be provided.

I apologize for any inconvenience that our delayed response may have caused you.