Monday, October 1, 2012

Noble Motors Ltd gears to promote ‘Kilimo Kwanza’ initiatives

IN a bid to support the government’s move on Kilimo Kwanza policy, a Dar es Salaam based vehicles dealers, the Noble Motors Limited, has introduced a range of tractors in a move to promote the facilitation of the program in the country. Speaking in an exclusive interview recently in Dar es Salaam, the Noble Motors’ assistant Manager Sales and Marketing, Emmanuel Sanare said that, his company has engaged in selling tractors so as to let the needy farmers buy such machines for large scale agricultural farming in the country.  He said, the company has ordered modern tractors from three countries namely Italy, India and China of different horsepower that range with different cubic capacities that range between 40 to 300 respectively. These he said are sold at an affordable price of between $9,000 and $260,000 respectively depending on the category and type of the tractor according to each one’s range of horsepower. In addition to tractors his company offers spare parts and has on display a range of agricultural implements such as Disc Plough, Lugged wheels, Gladiator, Rotary Tiller, Disc Harrow and Tipping trailer. The latter one is used not for tilling as it has been designed to carry agricultural farms and has the capacity of carrying 40 tones. According to him, all these have been put on display at the company’s main showroom and workshop facilities which is located along Nyerere Road in Dar es Salaam, and added that, all these are sold at a low cost price which is affordable to everybody. The company’s workshop offers a comprehensive range of automotive related services. When asked to describing the suitability of the tractors, he said that, they have between 2 and 4 cylinder engine with advanced direct injection, clutch single and dual clutch with live hydraulics including the automatic depth and draft control.

Imported tractors by Noble Motors (T) Limited used to facilitate the Kilimo Kwanza initiative in Tanzania.
  
Apart from tractors, the company is a dealer of the two tone capacity construction trucks from China and India, these are new brand vehicles of different types such as Mahindra (from India),DFM, GAC and CAMC(from China). These could be sold at a minimum price of $ 16,900 inclusive VAT and duty. One advantage the company does to its customers who buys their construction trucks is that, the company replaces the highly quality suspensions on these vehicles so that, they might be able to sustain and withstand to a certain extent the roughened road conditions in the country. They also do after sales services to would be customers who buy their vehicles by sending their technicians wherever they are throughout the country. The company also deals with the sale of BMW cars from German, according to him, these are the most expensive and luxurious cars which are made up of different categories that could be fetched at between $ 58,351 and $100,759 respectively. Once sold, the company offers service package for 3 to 5 years that is a timeframe servicing of the vehicles. Noble Motors Limited (NML) came into limelight in 1994 being the authorized dealers for BMW in Tanzania. Since its inception the company's focus area has been to build an organization that can provide quality services at the highest standard to automobile users in Tanzania. The company has only one main office in the name of Noble Motors and is based in Dar es Salaam city which is divided in three departments namely Automotive, Agriculture and Workshop which also deals with the repair of other vehicles from outside the company.  In upcountry regions, the company has dealership network including sister companies Noble auto-spares which has over 120 outlets countrywide.

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