Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Prelude to the Mastersingers (Die Meistersinger) 1968
Adjudicators:	Roger Barsotti , Drake Rimmer , Frank Wright
Venue:	Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Brighouse & Rastrick	Walter Barrow Hargreaves	8	193
2	Black Dyke Mills	Geoffrey Brand	11	191
3	G.U.S.	Stanley Boddington	19	189
4	City of Coventry	Albert Chappell	22	186
5	CWS (Manchester)	Alex Mortimer	2	184
6	Kibworth	William Scholes	13	0
	Craghead Colliery	Eric Cunningham	1	0
	Hanwell	Eric Bravington	3	0
	Woodfalls	Courtney Bosanko	4	0
	Kirkintilloch	Robert Oughton	5	0
	Mirrlees	Jack Atherton	6	0
	City of Bristol	Alwyn Lloyd	7	0
	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	9	0
	British Ropes Excelsior	William David Thomas	10	0
	Tullis Russell	Duncan Campbell	12	0
	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	13	0
	Cory	John Harrison	14	0
	Snibston Colliery	Fred Starkey	15	0
	Wingates Temperance	Hugh Parry	16	0
	Shaftesbury Crusade	A. W. Golding	17	0
	Head Wrightson	Cliff Midgley	18	0
	Whitburn Burgh	Alex Fleming	20	0
	Southsea	Frederick S. Monk	21	0
	Luton	Albert Coupe	24	0
	Lewis Merthyr	Stanley Williams	25	0

The winning band was declared World Champions as well as Champion Band of Great Britain.

The Spotlight on Service was given to John Baldwin.