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Your Fiorelli is a very attractive machine and I'm sure you're on the right lines in just treating it to gentle cleaning.
The frame angles look surprisingly shallow for a track frame, but it's said that the continentals were much less interested in frame design than the Brits (who were obsessive).
I think you'll be lucky to save those tubs. The inner tubes are probably latex which, in my experience, will be rotten by now. If they do pump up, make sure you re-cement them to the rims before riding.
It's very rare to see 1" pitch (block) chain now. It was still widely used on the track when I was a kid and it certainly makes an exciting noise in use, but I was never convinced it had any benefit. It must be heavy compared with conventional chain and the noise implies friction.
Airlite hubs, large and small flange, were very widely used in Britain up to the 1970's, and Tony Doyle won the 1980 worid pro pursuit championship on them in 1980. The wheels were on loan from his mentor and Clarence Wheelers club 'boss' Alf Whiteway.