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Have a look in the pre-50s rides thread because I asked the same sort of question and the links that @BigBlock put there are also dead useful. To sum up, tubulars, 1" wide.
Probably stating a lot of the obvious now... 40/32 spoke combo was a very British thing and I'm pretty certain they rode 36/36 spokes on the continent. Fiamme sprint rims seem to be the most common, or at least loads of them have survived anyway. Just check you get them with the logos that are correct for the era you want. Essentially, the rims remained pretty much unchanged for 20 years, but the logos and stickers changed. You also had the wood filled Scheeren rims which were impossibly light. I've got a 40H rear but I've never found a matching 32H front.