Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Sunset Rhapsody 1958
Adjudicators:	Harry Heyes , Thomas James Powell , Denis Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue (Kings Hall), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Jack Atherton	8	193
2	Besses o' th' Barn	Willie Wood	13	188
3	Black Dyke Mills	George Willcocks	16	187
4	Foden Motor Works	Rex Mortimer	17	185
5	Morris Motors	Stanley Boddington	3	183
6	Creswell Colliery	George Thompson	14	181
	Vickers Armstrong (Barrow Shipyard)	Herbert Sutcliffe	1
	Scottish Gas Board	Dugald MacBrayne	2
	Templemore	Alfie Bell	4
	Lewis Merthyr	Oliver Jones	5
	Leyland Motors	Harry Oakes	6
	Ransome & Marles	George Hespe	7
	Prescot Cables	John Capper	9
	Edge Hill	William Yates	10
	Rushden Temperance	William Scholes	11
	Irwell Springs	Harry Cheshire	12
	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	15
W	CWS (Manchester)
W	Finedon Old Prize
W	Wingates Temperance

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 T.J. Powell.

The contest was split into two rounds. After all the bands performed, the top six in merit played a second time before the final placings were announced. In the second round Fodens played first, followed by Black Dyke Mills, Besses o' th' Barn, Morris Motors, Carlton Main Frickley Colliery and Creswell Colliey.

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