Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Diversions for Brass Band 1985
Adjudicators:	Geoffrey Brand , Bernard Keeffe , David Read
Venue:	Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Kennedy's Swinton Concert	Garry Cutt	9	193
2	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	4	191
3	Leyland DAF	Richard Evans	10	190
4	John Foster Black Dyke Mills	David King	19	189
5	Grimethorpe Colliery	Frank Renton	6	188
6	British Aerospace Wingates	David James	8	187
7	Sun Life	Roy Newsome	16	186
8	Williams Fairey Engineering	Peter Parkes	14	185
10	Brighouse & Rastrick	Derek Broadbent	13
	Britannia Building Society Foden	Howard Snell	1
	IMI Yorkshire Imperial	James Scott	2
	Ever Ready	Roger Payne	3
	Asphaltic Newham	Nigel Taken	5
	CWS (Glasgow)	Michael Antrobus	7
	Jaguar Cars City of Coventry	Ray Farr	11
	Sellers Engineering	Phillip McCann	12
	Rigid Containers Group	Bramwell Tovey	15
	Point of Ayr Colliery (EIMCO)	Philip Mottershead	17
	Desford Colliery Caterpillar	James Watson	18

Rigid Container Group, Point of Ayr Colliery and CWS Glasgow were relegated.

Desford Colliery did not enter the 1990 contest.