The Model 302 telephone subscriber set was manufactured by Western Electric

Western Electric

Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995. It was the scene of a number of technological innovations and also some seminal developments in industrial management...

 from 1937; manufacture of entirely new units was ceased after the introduction of the Model 500

Model 500 telephone

The Western Electric model 500 telephone series was the standard desk-style domestic telephone set issued by the Bell System in North America from late 1949 through the 1984 Bell System divestiture. Millions of model 500-series phones were produced and were present in almost every home in North...

, but Model 302 units were continually remanufactured as such at least until 1958, and as the Model 5302 telephone

Model 5302 telephone

The Model 5302 telephone was created in 1954 by Western Electric to provide customers a "modern looking" telephone while permitting the Bell System to recycle and reuse components from the older 300 series to use up existing supplies of 302 parts, as well as to meet increased post-World War II...

 which was simply a change to a more modern housing, well into the next decade. Overseas, the Model 302's exterior design was retained by European Bell branch companies for such models as the 1954 Bell Standard, widely used in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 and Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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The Model 302 was in-plant from 1937 and was never completely retired from service.