Britsh actor
Lionel Jeffries, on the set of the 1964 film adaption of H.G. Wells' 1901 novel,
The First Men in the Moon, which I re-visited last night. He's portraying eccentric English inventor Joseph Cavor. Both the novel and film are set in 1899, so the bicycle is a bit anachronistic, as it appears to be an early safety bicycle from the very late 1880s. It definitely has solid rubber tyres, which were virtually extinct by the mid-1890s after the 1890 invention of the pneumatic tyre. I guess Cavor must have been foregoing a new bicycle and sinking all his available cash into his Cavorite experiments, which would soon pay off. It's nice that they fit a bicycle into the film, given that Wells was an avid proponent of cycling. Great actor, fun film and a very interesting bicycle.
