Joy was not only an inventive engineer but also a fine draughtsman. He worked for Shepherd and Todd and E. B. Wilson and Company contracted railways, Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway and Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. In 1880 he presented his paper on A New Reversing and Expansive Valve Gear at IMechE.
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