Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Energy 1971
Adjudicators:	Arthur Butterworth , Bernard Keeffe , Allan Street
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Yorkshire Imperial	John Pryce-Jones	16	193
2	GUS	Keith Wilkinson	15	191
3	Desford Colliery	Howard Snell	19	190
4	Sun Life (Stanshawe)	Derek Bourgeois	6	188
5	CWS (Manchester)	Frank Renton	13	187
6	Grimethorpe Colliery	James Scott	5	186
7	Brighouse & Rastrick	Derek Broadbent	1
9	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	24
11	Andrews Heat For Hire	Graham O'Connor	14	179
	Webb Ivory (Newhall)	Ernest Woodhouse	2
	Wingates Temperance	Dennis Wilby	3
	Templemore	Jack Burch	4
	Besses o' th' Barn	Roy Newsome	7
	Thoresby Colliery	John Childs	8
	City of Coventry	Ray Stuttard	9
	Fodens Motor Works	Derek Garside	10
	Cory	Denzil Stephens	11
	Ransome	Stephen Shimwell	12
	William Davis Construction	John Berryman	17
	Ever Ready	Trevor Walmsley	18
	Rochdale Wilsons	James Scott	20
	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	21
	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	David James	22
	Fairey Engineering	Walter Barrow Hargreaves	23

Webb Ivory (Newhall), Thoresby Colliery, Ransome, and Andrews Heat For Hire were not invited to the 1981 contest.