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@Rik_Van_Looy
I built my first fixed from a very similar bike back in 1993. Mine said Ernie Clements on the headtube badge and the inside of the fork blade had the Japanese JIS stamp - I think mine was made of some kind of japanese 4130. It also came with Shimano Tourney centre pull brakes - which looked very similar to yours.
I took the rear block off with centre punch and cold chisel, Sawed one of the rear axle spacers in half and put it on the other side to centre the hub and re-dished the wheel. I then used a cheap pressed steel fixed sprocket, loctite and a spare bottom bracket lock-ring to hold the sprocket on, removed the back brake, cut off the suicide levers and that was it... Rode it everywhere until I went to college in Bath and moved back to gears!