Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Variations on a Ninth 1964
Adjudicators:	Albert Chappell , John Manduell , William Relton
Venue:	Belle Vue (Kings Hall), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	City of Coventry	Arthur Kenney	16	196
2	Leyland Vehicles	Richard Evans	20	195
3	Fodens Motor Works	Howard Snell	21	194
4	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	14	193
5	Grimethorpe Colliery	Ray Farr	10	192
6	Besses o' th' Barn	Roy Newsome	15	191
7	Yorkshire Imperial	John Pryce-Jones	3	190
8	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Geoffrey Brand	19	189
	GUS	Keith Wilkinson	1
	William Davis Construction	John Berryman	2
	Fairey Engineering	Walter Barrow Hargreaves	4
	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	5
	Brighouse & Rastrick	James Scott	6
	Wingates Temperance	Denis Carr	7
	Sun Life	Derek Bourgeois	8
	Templemore	Jack Burch	9
	Ever Ready	Eric Cunningham	11
	Cory	Denzil Stephens	12
	CWS (Manchester)	Frank Renton	13
	Desford Colliery	Howard Snell	17
	Rochdale Wilsons	Roy Curran	18

Wingates Temperance and Templemore were not invited to the 1982 contest.

This was the last contest held at The King's Hall, Belle Vue.