Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Undaunted 1959
Adjudicators:	Eric Ball , Harold Hind , Frank Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Besses o' th' Barn	Willie Wood	13	189
2	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Jack Atherton	16	187
3	Morris Motors	Stanley Boddington	8	185
4	Fairey Aviation	Leonard Lamb	2	182
5	Templemore	Alfred Bell	14	180
6	Brighouse & Rastrick	Trevor Walmsley	3	179
	Leyland Motors	Harry Oakes	1
	Foden Motor Works	Rex Mortimer	4
	Rushden Temperance	William Scholes	5
	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	6
	Wingates Temperance	Hugh Parry	7
	Blackhall Colliery	W. F. Buckley	9
	Edge Hill	William Yates	10
	Agnes Street	Ernest Ruddock	11
	John Thompson Works	Bram Gay	12
	Eccles Borough	Edward Buttress	15
W	Creswell Colliery			0
W	Hammond's Sauce Works			0
W	Munn & Felton's (Footwear)			0
W	Ransome and Marles			0
W	Scottish Gas Board			0
W	Yorkshire Imperial Metals			0

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 Alex Mortimer.

Points and withdrawn bands found on contest programme at:
http://manchesterhistory.net/bellevue/brass/1959contest.html