Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Petite Suite de Ballet 1949
Adjudicators:	William Relton
Venue:	Paxton Suite, Pavilion Gardens, Buxton

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Haydock and Ashton Youth	Charles Fradley	4	180
2	Peak Dale Public	Reginald Hallam	3	178
3	Berisfords	Charles Cook	15	177
4	South Leicester Colliery	H. Essex	6	176
	Chapel-en-le-Frith	J. B. Stead	2
	Aldridge Brownhills	A. J. Withnall	4
	Thornhill Colliery	John Crowther	5
	Thurlstone	W. Hopkinson	7
	Chapeltown Silver	Edmund Hoole	8
	Clayton West and Emley	Charlie Westerby	9
	Littleborough Public	H. Halstead	10
	Bedford Church	G. A. Littlewood	11
	Edlington N.U.M.	Jackie Argyle	12
	Clock Face and Sutton Manor Collieries	J. D. Robinson	13
	Rothwell Temperance	Gordon Roberts	16
W	Hinchliffe Mill
W	Ramsbottom		1

Prizes - 1st £30 and trophy, 2nd £15, 3rd £10, 4th £5.
16 bands competed.