I picked it up in a car boot sale near Oxford UK in 1990 for £3!!
It came with a bag of parts including 2 strange pickups (now missing). One was a
bit like the ones now attached but with no name on it. The other was a large
lozenge shape. Also in the deal were a couple of knobs, a bridge, the original
tale piece, with a prong missing but no scratch plate.
I was living in London at the time near Russell Square so I took it to Andy's
Guitar Workshop in Denmark Street. They sorted out the neck and put on new
machine heads, as the original ones were unserviceable, put on a new tailpiece,
and set it up as an acoustic. As money was tight at the time I decided to
forget the pickups as they said they would need a bit of work on them.
So that's how it stayed until it found its way back to me. By chance a
guitarist friend of mine had a couple of Hofner pickups that he had no use for,
so he said I could have them. This made me decide that it was time to get the
guitar set up properly. I now live in Bath and through a local music shop
found Andy Manners, a specialist in guitar restoration. Armed with a picture
from your web site, he cut a new scratch plate & made the pickup surrounds
from the same material. One of the pickups needed to be rewound and we decided
to add the selector switch. Although the old Senator is not fully authentic I
think it now looks great, and with the Vox Pathfinder 10 that I got for
Christmas (thanks Santa!) it sounds great to!!