Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Three Musketeers 1953
Adjudicators:	George Hespe , Harold Hind , Denis Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	National Band of New Zealand	Ken Smith	14	194
2	Fairey Aviation	Harry Mortimer	15	192
3	Black Dyke Mills	Alex Mortimer	7	190
4	CWS (Manchester)	Jack Atherton	2	189
5	Foden Motor Works	Harry Mortimer	9	185
6	Munn & Feltons	Stanley Boddington	18	181
	Prescot Cables	John Capper	1
	Ransome & Marles	Harry Mortimer	3
	Yorkshire Copperworks	Alfred Whitehead	4
	Carlton Main	Alex Mortimer	6
	Hanwell	George Thompson	8
	Rushden Temperance	William Scholes	10
	Wingates Temperance	Jack Eckersley	11
	Edge Hill	Norman Jones	12
	Woolley Colliery	L. Davies	13
	Besses o' th' Barn	Willie Wood	16
	Leyland Motors	Harold Moss	17
	Royston New Monckton	William Foster	19

Prizes:

1st: 150 plus 2,000 Gold Challenge Trophy plus the 'Sunday Chronicle' Trophy
2nd: 120 plus The Frank Parker Memorial Cup
3rd: 80
4th: 50
5th: 30
6th: 20

Members of the winning band received engraved certificates.

The test piece was specially composed for the contest.

The Iles Medal was awarded to Harry Mortimer.

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