D. 2,70 = "Diameter 2.70 meters"
P 2,36? = "Pitch 2.36 meters"
HP 160 BEARDMORE = " 160 HP Beardmore engine"
DE H 3 -------- Might be a DH3 (DeHavilland or "Airco") except that I'm only aware of the DH1, DH2, DH4, and DH9 models.
DG 2302 = "Drawing number 2302"
B.17466 --------- Probably a production number of no value.
It's certainly likely WW1 era. There may have been a DH3 built or designed at one point, and if so this would likely have been designed for that. There are some other possibilities, however, but a little research on a DH3 might solve it.
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EDIT:
I did find this statement from a modelling site:
"Yeah there was a DH3. It looked a little bit like
the later DH10 but with two 120 hp Beardmore engines
and 4 bladed pusher props. Had a crew of 3 and
designed to bomb industrial centres in Germany. Trike
undercart. Only one prototype built. 2nd. prototype
built with 160 hp Beardmores and contract for 50
placed but cancelled by War Office as thought
"unnecessary to bomb Germany." Both prototypes
scrapped and said to be actually burning on scrapheap
when London was first bombed by Germany's equivalent,
the Gotha, on July 17 1917. DH3 redesigned and
eventually built as DH10."
http://www.wwi-models.org/mail-archi...hive.2001/3720

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