Captain Solomon Clifford Joseph DFC* (29 April 1893 – 21 March 1966) was a British flying ace of the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I.
5475 on a Caudron biplane at the British Flying School at Vendôme, France, on 7 October,[1] and was commissioned as a temporary flight sub-lieutenant on 2 December.
On 17 November 1925 the partnership between Joseph and two others in the Tyseley Munitions Works, operating as breakers down of service ammunition and fuses, was dissolved.
[6] In early 1939 Simpson bought the assets of the bankrupt New Imperial Motors motorcycle company, which become part of his Clifford Aero & Auto Ltd. group, and produced components for Lancaster and Spitfire aircraft during the war.
[7] Post war, under the name of Clifford Cultivators Ltd., he produced rotary cultivators from 1946 to 1959,[8] as well as hand and power pumps, electric washing machines, and fork lift trucks,[9] while his company Clifford Covering Ltd. manufactured steering wheels.