Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Saga of the North 1965
Adjudicators:	Tom Atkinson , Alex Mortimer , Denis Wright
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Fairey	Leonard Lamb	17	190
2	Brighouse & Rastrick	Walter Barrow Hargreaves	14	188
3	Morris Motors	Cliff Edmunds	9	185
4	Foden Motor Works	Rex Mortimer	7	184
5	Yorkshire Imperial	Trevor Walmsley	5	182
6	Ransome & Marles	Dennis Masters	6	180
	St. Dennis	Eddie J. Williams	1
	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	2
	Creswell Colliery	Ernest Woodhouse	3
	Besses o' th' Barn	Frank Bryce	4
	Wingates Temperance	Hugh Parry	6
	Crossley's Carpets	John Harrison	8
	Slaithwaite	Roy Newsome	10
	Edge Hill	William Yates	11
	Cammell Laird	James Scott	12
	Hoggarths	Denis Smith	13
	West Bromwich Borough	G. A. Morris	15
	Templemore	Alfred Bell	16
	Lindley	Peter Wadsworth	19
	Mossley	Stanley Whiteman	20

Prizes:

1st: 200 plus 2,000 Gold Trophy plus the W.D. & H.O. Wills Cup.
2nd: 125 plus The Frank Parker Memorial Cup.
3rd: 100
4th: 60
5th: 40
6th: 25

Each member of the winning band received engraved certificates.

The winning conductor received an engraved cigarette casket.

The Iles Medal was presented to Leonard Lamb.