BIG ROY

The Versatile 1080.

The instructions were clear - build the world's biggest tractor.  Build a tractor so big that it would outperform anything else ever made.  Build BIG ROY!

The Versatile 1080 (affectionately know at Versatile as BIG ROY) was built in the late 70s as a prototype.  It was a 26-ton, 600hp, eight-wheel-drive monster with a 19-litre Cummins engine in the rear and the 2,100-litre fuel tank in the front section.

The new tractor caused a sensation but soaring development costs and the fact that there were no implements big enough to challenge it's pulling power caused the cancellation of the BIG ROY program.

BIG ROY is still on display at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum in Austin, Manitoba, Canada.

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