Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Diadem of Gold 1953
Adjudicators:	Stanley Boddington , Arthur Butterworth , William Relton
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	10	194
2	Brighouse & Rastrick	Derek Broadbent	20	192
3	Fairey Engineering	Richard Evans	21	191
4	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	14	190
5	Ever Ready	George Thompson	11	188
6	William Davis Construction	John Berryman	8	187
7	CWS (Manchester)	Trevor Walmsley	15	186
8	Cory	Bram Gay	12	185
11	Burton (Newhall)	Ernest Woodhouse	19	181
12	Stanshawe Sun Life	Walter Barrow Hargreaves	17
	Wingates Temperance	Frank Renton	1
	Carlton Main	Denzil Stephens	2
	Besses o' th' Barn	Frank Bryce	3
	Templemore	Jack Burch	4
	Yorkshire Imperial	Denis Carr	5
	Foden Motor Works	James Scott	6
	Desford Colliery	Albert Chappell	7
	City of Coventry	Kenneth Dennison	9
	East Lancashire Paper Group	David Loukes	13
	Grimethorpe Colliery	Howard Snell	16
	Tredegar Town	John Childs	18
	Thoresby Colliery	William Lippeatt	22