Del Monte Motor Works, Inc.

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About Del Monte Motor Works, Inc.

DEL MONTE MOTOR WORKS, INC., a leading bus and truck manufacturer has been serving the Philippine Transport Industry since 1954. It has been providing the bus requirements of Metro Manila and provincial bus operators and has manufactured bus and truck bodies for almost all of the leading European and Asian brand of bus and truck chassis including some in the Middle East. Most prominent of these brands are the Volvo of Sweden, Mercedes Benz and MAN of Germany, the Fiat of Italy, Leyland of England, Ashok of India, Isuzu, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Hino of Japan, Daewoo, Hyundai and Ssangyong of Korea.

In the early 50’s it started manufacturing bus and truck bodies mounted on leading American brands such as the International Harvester, Ford, Chevrolet, and the Dodge Chassis. Also, in the 50’s, its sister company, the EMCOS DEVELOPMENT & SUPPLY CO., INC. was the leading distributor of International Harvester Macleod, Inc. in Northern Luzon marketing bus chassis, trucks, tractors, agricultural and farm implements.

At present, it is solely responsible for the introduction of Volvo Articulated and Bi-Articulated buses in the Philippines. Through its earnest effort and initiative, PHILTRAK, VOLVO, and DEL MONTE have signed a supply and transfer of technology agreement wherein Volvo will supply is products mainly the articulated and the bi-articulated bus chassis and DEL MONTE will manufacture and assemble the bus body and deliver the finish product of the bus to Philtrak and Volvo agreed to transfer its technology in the assembly of its articulated and bi-articulated bus chassis to Philtrak and DEL MONTE jointly constituting a tri-partite agreement among the aforestated parties. Together, they intend to introduce the system not only in Metro Manila but all over the Philippines where the need arises especially on traffic clogged areas.

DEL MONTE is also responsible in re-activating the sale of Isuzu Buses in the Philippines when the combined resources of General Motors Corporation, the Yutivo group and Isuzu Philippines folded up in the middle 80’s by importing directly from the factory of Isuzu, Japan and supplying different bus operators. It is still authorized to import bus and truck chassis on CBU basis and packaging it with the bus or truck body manufactured from its plant.

DEL MONTE has three (3) existing plants and facilities in the Philippines. Two of them are strategically located in Quezon City and the third one at Sto. Tomas, Pampanga, a one-hour drive from Quezon City. It has a tested capacity of a minimum of sixty (60) units of bus and truck bodies a month. It has supplied the majority of the bus bodies for the government owned corporations like the Metro Manila Transit Corporation and the PNR (Phil. National Railways) Motor Service. Before the introduction of these articulated buses, DEL MONTE has pioneered in the manufactured of bus trailers with a capacity of 200 passengers which were operated by MMTC in EDSA and by a private bus operator in the long stretch Marcos Highway. It was also involved in the assembly and rehabilitation of the British Leyland Double Deckers used to be operated by the same MMTC.

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