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@clubman
What a wonderful find!
Clearly the Cambio Corsa was a dead end in bike development, but it had at least three notable successes:
1948: Bartali's Tour de France. The power of prayer may have had an influence.
1950: Coppi's Paris Roubaix. But Fausto did say that he won in spite of the gear, rather than because of it.
1958: Keeler's End to End. Dave almost came to a halt with back ache, and I suspect the C.C. didn't help with this.
As to this machine - I've never seen a block remover that would fit, so I would just oil the block and leave it in place - the sprockets would be fine for a TT on the Bath Road, just as long as you had a big enough chain ring!
The brakes are a copy of the Italian Universal brand - the levers should have rubber covers, but I think you'd be very lucky to find any now.
Anyway it looks a great project and I hope you manage to get many miles of riding from it.