Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Tempest 1944
Adjudicators:	Alfred Ashpole , Harold Hind , Frank Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Fairey Aviation	Harry Mortimer	22	182
2	Creswell Colliery	Harold Moss	4	170
3	Bickershaw Colliery	William Haydock	12	168
4	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Albert Badrick	14	164
5	Clydebank Burgh	George Hawkins	7	153
6	Brighouse & Rastrick	Fred Berry	13	152
	Cory	Reg Little	1
	Horwich Old	Percy Bullough	2
	CWS (Manchester)	Albert E. Rayner	3
	City of Coventry	Harry Heyes	5
	Parc & Dare	Denis Wright	6
	Wingates Temperance	Willie Wood	8
	Barrow Shipyard	Herbert Sutcliffe	9
	Gwauncaegurwen	Dan Lloyd	10
	Yorkshire Copperworks	Sydney Wood	11
	Denton Original	Fred Bonelli	15
	ICI (Alkali)	Fred Mortimer	16
	Sankey's Castle Works	Cyril Yorath	17
	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	18
	Harton Colliery	Jack Atherton	19
	St. Hilda	Milnes Wood	20
	Halifax Home Guard	Tom Casson	21
	Crookhall Colliery	J. J. Stobbs	23

Prizes:

1st: £50 plus £2000 Gold Trophy plus the "Sunday Chronicle" Trophy
2nd: £20
3rd: £12
4th: £8
5th: £6
6th: £4

The winning band perormed a short concert following the presentation of the prizes, as well as a BBC concert on Monday 4th September.

A resolution of thanks to "Absent Comrades" still at War was made by John Henry Iles.