The Model 5302 telephone was created in 1954 by Western Electric (the telephone-manufacturing arm of American Telephone & Telegraph) 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 demand for new telephone service and for extension phones.
Western Electric created a new Model 500-styled case to cover a narrower model 302 telephone baseplate ringer and network. While the dial displays its numbers and letters on the outside of the finger dial like the 500, the dial itself is actually the smaller 5H or 6H dial of the model 302. The cradle features a narrower portion which accommodates the earlier F1 handset. Later production of this model utilized the GF handset which looked like the G1 handset used on the 500 model telephone, but contained the same HA1 and F1 transmit and receive elements used in the F1 handset. Some 5302 sets were also issued with a standard G1 handset containing U1 and T1 elements.
This model was produced starting about 5 years after the introduction of the Model 500 in 1949 to use up existing supplies of 302 parts, as well as to relieve some of the demand for the new 500 sets. The 5302 sets were not manufactured on the normal production line, but were assembled in the refurbishment shops in the distribution centers. Fewer of these sets exist than either the 302 or the 500. The time they were produced was much shorter than either the 302 or 500 designs -- from about the mid-1950s to mid-1960s.
Several variations were produced including single line (5302), party line (5304 and 5306) and 2-line (5410) models.).[1]
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