Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals 1949
Adjudicators:	David Aspinall , William A. Scholes
Venue:	Belle Vue (Kings Hall), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery	Edmund Hoole	9	184
2	Upton Colliery Workpeople's	Joseph Stevens	7	180
3	Askern Colliery	Ed Pearce	11	178
4	Yorkshire W. D. Transport	C. A. Smith	4	176
	Killamarsh Silver	John Shimwell	1
	New Marske Silver	J. Kitching	2
	Cottingham Silver	Sam Walmsley	3
	Scunthorpe Boro British Legion	William Richards	5
	Harpurhey & Moston Silver	J. Bevan	6
	Bolton Public	F. Wilson	8
	Failsworth & District	Robert Dootson	10
	Coleshill Ex-Service Men's Club	M. Clayton	12
W	Warrington Silver

Prize:
1st: £40 Plus The News Chronicle Challenge Trophy
2nd: £25 Plus The National Brass Band Club Challenge Trophy
3rd: £15
4th: £10