Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Thanksgiving 1945
Adjudicators:	Eric Ball
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Burnage & District	Elgar Clayton	184
2	Tweedales & Smalley	Clifton Jones	180
3	Middlewich Centenary Band	James Thorpe	178
4	Prestwich Borough	James Moss	176
	Agnes St. Temperance	Ernest Ruddock
	Barrow Hill and Staveley Works	William Knight
	Barrow-in-Furness Youth Club	Herbert Sutcliffe
	Barton Hall Works	E. Bradshaw
	Batley Old	C. A. Smith
	Black Dyke Mills Juniors	Hubert Hepworth
	Blackpool Excelsior	G. Rimmer
	Burley and Ilkley	William Ingham Warburton
	Buttersfield's Tank Works	J. W. Sykes
	Clayton Aniline Works	Edward Buttress
	Eckington United	Harold Barker
	Gorton and Openshaw Old	William Phillips
	Ollerton Colliery	William Appleton
	Pemberton Temperance	Clifton Jones
	Reddish	Frank Smith
	Richard Johnson and Nephew Works	J. O. Carter
	Royston New Monckton Colliery Institute	William Foster
	Skelmersdale Temperance	Fred Astley
	Stretford Borough	Ernest G. Hughes
	Waterhead	Robert Woolley
	Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery	Edmund Hoole
	Whitworth Vale and Healey	Noel Thorpe
	Wingate Colliery	Alfred Cartwright

25 bands competed