Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Sinfonietta for Brass Band [Leidzen] 1955
Adjudicators:	Walter Barrow Hargreaves , Erik Leidzen , Denis Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Ferodo Works	George Hespe	9	190
2	John White Footwear	George Thompson	10	186
3	CWS (Manchester)	Alex Mortimer	6	184
4	Ransome & Marles	Eric Ball	3	182
5	YEWCO	Albert Lunn	15	178
6	Rushden Temperance	William Scholes	7	170
	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Jack Atherton	1
	Markham Main	Edwin Griffiths	2
	Besses o' th' Barn	Willie Wood	4
	Barrow Shipyard	Herbert Sutcliffe	5
	Leyland Motors	Harold Moss	8
	Wingates Temperance	Hugh Parry	11
	Clayton Aniline	Edward Buttress	12
	Edge Hill	William Yates	13
	Yorkshire Copperworks	Willie Wood	14
	Cory	Stan Brown	16

Prizes:

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

Each member of the winning band received engraved certificates.

The test piece was specially composed for the contest.

The Iles Medal was presented to Stanley Boddington.

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