Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Overture for an Epic Occasion 1945
Adjudicators:	Henry Geehl , Frank Wright
Venue:	Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Fairey Aviation	Harry Mortimer	6	180
2	Horden Colliery	William Lowes	13	175
3	Parc & Dare	W. Haydn Bebb	16	173
4	Brighouse & Rastrick	Eric Ball	4	169
	Clydebank Burgh	Charles Telfer	1
	Luton	Fred Mortimer	2
	Black Dyke Mills	Arthur Oakes Pearce	3
	Creswell Colliery	Harold Moss	5
	Cory	Reg Little	7
	Wingates Temperance	Harold Moss	8
	Grimethorpe	George Thompson	9
	Ransome & Marles	J. A. Greenwood	10
	Blackhall Colliery	Noel Thorpe	11
	Hanwell	George Turner	12
	St. Hilda	George Hespe	14
	Scottish CWS	J. A. Greenwood	15
	Gwauncaegurwen	Dan Lloyd	17

Foden's were barred for having achieved a hat trick in 1936-8.

Denis Wright was appointed referee.

Prizes:

1st: 200 Guineas
2nd: 150 Guineas
3rd: 75 Guineas
4th: 50 Guineas

The 1945 Championship was the first sponsored by the Daily Herald Newspaper.

The winners were announced by John Henry Iles OBE.

The composers notes on his work described an "Epic Occasion" as "such as the overthrow of Nazidom".
The contest started at 12.00 noon.
The programme cost 6d and all proceeds went to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.