Del Monte Motor Works, Inc. ( DMMW ), also known as Del Monte Motors , is a bus and truck manufacturer headquartered in Quezon City , Philippines . It was established in 1950. The company offers a range of truck and bus bodies for its all major brands. It is also one of the leading bus body manufacturers in the Philippines, other including Santarosa Motor Works; Almazora Motors Corporation ; and Hino Motors Philippines .
20-502: The Volvo B7R is a coach chassis available with a range of bodies. It is promoted as a rear engined lightweight coach chassis. It is primarily intended for tourist and long-distance duties. B7R is also manufactured in China, Brazil, Hungary, India and Iran for use in regional transport services. B7R is powered by the Volvo D7E (previously D7A, D7B and D7C) six-cylinder diesel engine with
40-655: A low-floor variant of B7R, known as the Volvo B7RLE , for intercity and city operations. In Brazil, the B7R is produced in Curitiba , since 1998. The first B7R in the country was imported from Sweden and operated in Curitiba's public transportation as a Direct Line Bus . In 2012, B7R was renamed to B290R (B7RLE was renamed to B290RLE), and is often used in BRS and BRT applications. Uruguay also
60-403: A turbocharger and intercooler . The D7E engine produces 290 hp with 1200 Nm of torque between 1050 and 1650 r/min. It comes with a retarder incorporated into the gearbox. The retarder slows down the engine when brakes are applied. Once the engine slows down, disk brakes take over and bring the vehicle to complete stop, almost in an instant. Its frame is a robust steel construction with
80-510: A B7RLE chassis bodied with Marcopolo Gran Viale LE body that arrived as a test unit before being bought by COETC. The last Montevidean bus operator to buy B7R chassis was Raincoop that bought 8 chassis with Marcopolo Allegro G6 bodywork in late 2007 before buying 9 more to bodywork at Caio with Foz Super body in 2008 for suburban use presented the day March 26, with 4 of the 8 chassis with Marcopolo Allegro G6 bodywork being bought by UCOT after Raincoop bankruptcy with another 4 Marcopolo Allegro G6 and
100-603: A flat upper face. A flat upper face simplifies building bus body. It could be built with a maximum length of about 12.5 metres. The B7R is also available as complete buses - the Volvo 7350 (for Mexico), Volvo 9400 (for India) and Volvo 8700. The B7R is the most widely used deluxe long-distance bus in India and is employed by not only the state-owned transport corporations of the state of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh but also by private operators. Volvo also developed
120-546: Is one of the world's largest bus manufacturers, with a complete range of heavy buses for passenger transportation. The product range includes complete buses and coaches as well as chassis combined with a comprehensive range of services. The bus operation has a global presence, with production in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. In India it set up its production facility in Bangalore. A former production facility
140-555: 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. In 2009, after Batangas Laguna Tayabas Bus Company Incorporated (BLTBCo.)'s suspended operations and renovation for six years, DMMW took over the management of BLTBCo. They rename the company as Del Monte Land Transport Bus Company (DLTBCo), and continues routes to Metro Manila via Laguna , Quezon Province , Batangas Province , Camarines Sur , Camarines Norte , and Albay . Their buses are also made from
160-680: The 9 Caio Foz Super being either sold to particulars, non-Montevideo operators or scrapped; beyond Montevideo multiple operators bought this chassos with 10 units with Busscar El Buss 340 bodywork arriving for suburban use for Tala-Pando-Montevideo and an unknown number of units of this chassis being acquired by "interdepartmental" operators like CITA SA (Comil Campione Vision 3.25 and Marcopolo Idealle 770 bodywork), Grupo Carminatti (composed of Carminatti Turismo and CUT Corporación,with Marcopolo Viaggio G7 1050 bodywork), Cromin/"Rutas del Sol" (Marcopolo Viaggio G6 1050 bodywork), etc. with many of these units being retired because old age and stress damage. In
180-641: 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. Philtrak, Volvo, and Del Monte have signed a supply and transfer of technology agreement wherein Volvo will supply its products, mainly
200-632: The Philippines, B7R is also the basis for the GDW6127HKC and DMMW DM16 (included a Volvo 9800-styled front fascia) manufactured by Autodelta Coach Builders Inc and Del Monte Motor Works . It is similar to the low-end version, also the B7RLE . Meanwhile, in Indonesia, the Volvo B7R was only offered from 2003 to 2004. But there are many bus companies that use the Volvo B7R, such as PO. Harapan Jaya, PO. Nusantara, etc. In
220-530: The Torino VIP Class body with them starting services December 15, another batch was bought in 2010 (this one of circa 70 units) to body at Mascarello in the Gran Via II body with 36 of them being assigned to suburban lines and the rest to urban lines, an additional unit arrived as gift from Volvo bodied with a Marcopolo Gran Viale BRT body that had to be reworked to standard design by COETC, the other one being
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#1732876738960240-401: The articulated and the bi-articulated bus chassis, and Del Monte will manufacture and assemble the bus body and deliver the finished bus product to Philtrak. 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
260-573: The bus or changed the D7E engine into a Mitsubishi Fuso 6D16 engine or Nissan Diesel FE6B or Hino J08E to reducing operational and maintenance cost. Volvo Buses Volvo Buses ( Volvo Bus Corporation ; formal name: Volvo Bussar AB ), stylized as VOLVO , is a subsidiary and a business area of the Swedish vehicle maker Volvo , which became an independent division in 1968. It is based in Gothenburg . It
280-564: The company with High Class Greyhound facilities. In 2018, DMWW began working together with Hyundai to assemble a modern jeepney . Their first units, the Hyundai HD50S Class 2 Modern Jeepney, rolled off the assembly line in 2019. That same year, they began working together with Scania to build a body for their Scania Touring buses. It has four existing plants and facilities in the Philippines. Two of them are located in Quezon City
300-626: The fusion with another operator named CUTU that were bodyworked by Comil in the Comil Campione Vision 3.25. In 2004 the cooperative COETC acquired 5 B7R chassis bodied at Marcopolo with the Gran Viale body, before buying 10 more in 2005, these being the first to include an LED electronic destination sign of Montevideo , another 10 B7R were bought in 2008 after the fusion of COETC and CODET(from Las Piedras, Uruguay , Canelones ) realized August 1, 2007, these chassis were bodied at Marcopolo in
320-401: The operation, this bus was sometimes used as the regular route and sometimes used as a tourist bus. Using the Volvo D7E, this bus has large horsepower, compared with standard Indonesian busses in the rear-engined busses, such as Hino RK8JSKA, Hino RG1JS/JN, Mercedes Benz OH 1521, and Mercedes Benz OH 1525. But due to its large power and high maintenance, many companies that were using the B7R sold
340-548: The system not only in Metro Manila but all over the Philippines where the need arises especially on traffic clogged areas. It 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 its local subsidiary folded up in the middle 1980s by importing directly from the factory of Japan's Isuzu and supplying different bus operators. It
360-563: The third one at Sto. Tomas, Pampanga and the fourth one at Caloocan . It has a tested capacity of a minimum of sixty units of bus and truck bodies a month. It has supplied the majority of bus bodies for the government-owned corporations like the Metro Manila Transit Corporation and the PNR Motor Service . Before the introduction of these articulated buses, Del Monte has pioneered in the manufactured of bus trailers with
380-575: Was a user of the B7R with three of the Montevidean urban and suburban bus operators buying units to bodywork in multiple companies, the first of these acquisitions were done by UCOT in 2001 with these 48 units being bodied at Busscar with the Busscar Urbanuss Pluss model. UCOT also bought 9 units more in 2007 for its recently inaugurated suburban and interdepartmental branch created in January, with
400-531: Was located in Irvine , Scotland (closed in 2000). Codes in parentheses are VIN codes for the chassis models. Bus makers owned/acquired by Volvo: Volvo bus (best for purchasing volvo bus) Del Monte Motors In 1950, it started manufacturing bus and truck bodies mounted on leading US brands, being International Harvester , Ford , Chevrolet , and the Dodge Chassis. Also, in the 1950s, its sister company,
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