Found: POL can spout..

[Tony Smith]

... commonly called a "Horsecock".

I am looking for one, or two, of the flexible metal spouts that have a screw fitting on one end that fits to the mouth of a POL Can or the bottom of the fuel funnel. Would be very happy with NOS, but clean and serviceable used is fine. Willing to pay postage from wherever on MLU you are. (I don't have one of these, pic is from MLU)

[BCA]

Available. Will send a PM later today with details. Brian

[Tony Smith]

Thank you, Brian.

[Ed Storey]

It is interesting that every army in the world seems to call it the same thing. I remember visiting the Russian Battalion in Croatia in 1993, and while fueling up they even referred to it as a 'horse cock' as well. The translator had fun with the term.

[rob love]

Not anymore Ed. I had some guys from 2VP over to borrow the M548 from the museum, and it was out of fuel. When I asked them if they had a horsecock in their vehicle, they kind of looked at me sideways. I had to explain what I was asking for, and one of them told me they weren't allowed to call them that anymore.

[Bob Phillips]

Ah..politcal correctness run amuck..is nothing sacred?

[Wayne Hingley]

Originally Posted by rob love

...they weren't allowed to call them that anymore.

Yes, the horses must have been so offended.

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Not anymore Ed. I had some guys from 2VP over to borrow the M548 from the museum, and it was out of fuel. When I asked them if they had a horsecock in their vehicle, they kind of looked at me sideways. I had to explain what I was asking for, and one of them told me they weren't allowed to call them that anymore.

And thus ends a tradition dating back to at least 95 A.D. when Caeser's XIV Centurion Guard used actual horse cocks to fuel their battle chariots with ether. Or not.