Cockerill Sambre was the major Belgian steel maker, equivalent to Krupp or Vickers.
http://www.hfinster.de/StahlArt2/archive-CockerillLiege-en.html"Seraing is in Liège province, Wallonia region, eastern Belgium. It lies along the Meuse River, 6 miles upstream from Liège. Seraing is a historic hub of Belgium's iron, steel, and machine-building industries. In 1817 the English industrialist John Cockerill (1790-1840) founded in Seraing what was to become one of the largest ironmaking and machinery complexes in Europe, Cockerill-Sambre, and was the first to use the Bessemer process in steel production (1863)."
Acier Cockerill was the trade mark of
Cockerill of Ougree-Liege.
The Manufacture d’Armes à Feu liégeoise used this steel almost exclusively.
Some Browning patent
Fabrique-Nationale-Herstal very early versions of the A5 shipped to the U.S. between 1903 and 1909 are marked Cockerill Steel.
