Business's of Rohan

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Brandybuck Engineering:  An engine powerplant shop that has been experimenting with steam turbines for the last few years.  Having perfected a smaller example of a practical naval turbine, they plan to install it in a new class of destroyer at the end of 1901.

Minas Nin Engines:  Producter of complex reciprocating engines for the Navy of the Mark.  In competition with Brandybuck Engineering for naval contracts, beating out the Brandybuck compound engines during the late 1880s.

Isengard Arms:  Makers of quality naval gun barrels for over 50 years.

Gates from the Mountain, Incorperated:  Crafters of armor plate for many years, and have recently perfected a new kind of stronger steel armor.  Use to be a supplier of iron and other metal gates for fortifications back in centuries past.  Known for fine, if slow, work.

Mithlond Yards:  A shipyard owned by the Harlock family for many years.  While the majority of the yard does both private and military contracts, the Lord of Mithlond does have the ability and right to build special projects.  The Belted Cruiser Orodruin is the most recent result of one of the Lord Harlock's private projects.

Harlond Shipwrights:  A rival shipyard to Mithlond, they've been know to do contracts to foreign nations in the past, and also receive work for other projects from the Kingdom of Rohan directly.

Bombadil Motors:  Manufacturer of steam powered autocoaches and launches.  Rumored to be working on a steam powered contraption for the Army of the Mark.  Also builder of smaller steam engine used in Rohan's torpedo boats.

Wizard:  Originally a large company that did all things steam related.  Has reduced production to just steam boilers for seafaring vessels and railroad engines in the last 20 years.  Named from a campaign ad in the 1820s;  "You want to run that contraption?  You are going to need a Wizard."

White Smoke Boilers:  A relatively new but quality driven company from the northern reaches of Rohan.  Build boilers for ships primarily.  Been known for taking foreign contracts and civilian projects.  Founded by White Smoke Trail of Mirkwood Village.

Toyotomi Daisho: Designers and producers of fine blades for the Armed Forces of the Mark.  An imported company from the Eastern Kingdom.

Alatar & Pallando Firesticks: Gunsmiths since shortly after the first interchangable models were introducted to Rohan in 1823, these gunmakers have produced about 60% of the rifles and pistols used by the Riders of Rohan since 1859.

Gandalf and Gamgee Rockets: Makers of firecrackers and rocket artillery for the Mark since before anyone can remember.