City retained the previous season's kit, manufactured by English company Umbro and sponsored by Japanese electronics manufacturer Brother.
Umbro and Brother remained the kit manufacturers and sponsors respectively.
In 1968 the company moved its UK headquarters to Audenshaw, Manchester, after acquiring the Jones Sewing Machine Company, a long established British sewing machine maker.
Brother Industries entered the embroidery industry after several computerized embroidery companies contracted it to provide sewing heads.
Big Brother | Kawasaki Heavy Industries | Imperial Chemical Industries | Big Brother and the Holding Company | Big Brother (TV series) | Brother Cadfael | Goodwill Industries | Access Industries | Mother Father Brother Sister | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | brother | Litton Industries | Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine | Big Brother Australia | PPG Industries | Lucas Industries | Chris-Craft Industries | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack) | Little Brother | lay brother | Hey Brother | Brother | Blue Circle Industries | Winnebago Industries | Brother Cane | Brother Bear | Big Brother (UK) | Big Brother 13 (U.S.) | Big Brother 13 | Willamette Industries |