Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	J. C. Griffith
Venue:	Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Cambusnethan Templar Band	Charles E. Murdoch
2	Airdrie Old Union	Charles E. Murdoch
3	Newmains Brass Band	William Chalmers
	9th L.R.V. (Kirkmuirhill)	W. Maddock
	Alloa Colliery	John McBeath
	Armadale Brass Band	William Muirhead
	Baillieston	W. B. Howell
	Bonnybridge	James Jenkins
	Croy	G. St. Clair Jones
	Larkhall Raploch	James Hutchens
	Tillicoultry	James Jenkins

March contest - 1st Baillieston, 2nd Tillicoutry, 3rd Kirkmuirhill.
11 bands played.
Sources:
The Dundee Courier & Argus and Northern Warder (Dundee, Scotland), Tuesday, May 05, 1885; pg. 7; Issue 9925.
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc40.htm