Interpretation ID: nht72-6.40

DATE: 09/14/72

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; E.T. Driver; NHTSA

TO: G.W. Balch

TITLE: FMVSR INTERPRETATION

TEXT: In your letter dated July 29, 1972, you advise us that your Southside Recapping and Tire Company with the assigned retread identification code mark "MBP" ceased operation on or about June 5, 1972, and that you wish the code mark cancelled. We have changed our records in accordance with your request.

Since your production ended at a specific time and the regulation requires that all retread tires be marked with the week and year of manufacture, the tires produced under your management and for which you are responsible are easily identified by the date code.

With proper application to the "Tire identification and Recordkeeping" of the "National Highway Traffic Safety Administration," if requested, the same code mark way be assigned to a new company in order to avoid the cost of reworking the matrices.

We would be pleased to service you with a new retread code mark if you recenter the retread business sometime in the future. We are also forwarding a copy of this letter to Mr. Buce, the present owner of the matrices, for his information.

SINCERELY,

July 29, 1972

Department of Transportation Tire Safety Section

Gentlemen:

This is to advise that I request you cancel my retreading number of DOT RMBP which was originally assigned to me, operating as Southside Recapping and Tire-Co, 255 East Fleming Road, Montgomery, Alabama 35106.

I ceased operations on or about June 5th or this year and produced no tires bear-the above stated DOT number or date code after that date.

I am particularly concerned about the cancellation of this number in that the landlord indicated that he anticipates commencing operation early in the month of August under a new name but he does not believe he will have to do anything to comply with your departments regulations. I certainly do not want to be liable for any of his production which conceivably could bear my DOT number with or without date code tag.

It is therefore requested that you notify him via letter that the DOT number MBP has subsequently been cancelled and that he must apply for his own identification.

You may contact him at the following address: Fred Buce 255 East Fleming Road Montgomery, Albana 36105

G W Balch f/d/b/a Southside Recapping and Tire