Machines that made history VERSATILE BIG ROY

ig Roy, or the Versatile 1080 as it was officially known, was announced in 1977. The tractor was named after Roy Robinson, the Versatile company’s managing director, a distinctive figure in the tractor industry at that time, being well over 6ft tall and often dressed in cowboy boots and a Stetson hat when he arrived for work at the Versatile factory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was well aware that the high horsepower tractor sector was attracting plenty of interest, and that the