Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	In Switzerland 1953
Adjudicators:	William Skelton
Venue:	Oxford Town Hall (Carfax Assembly Rooms), Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Mansfield Borough Silver	G. E. Flint	2	174
2	Shipston Town Silver	Bert Smith	3	173
3	Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (T.A.)	E. Hopkins	4	172.5
4	Verwood Prize	Stanley G. Newson	14	172
5	Towcester Studio Silver	William Bell	13	171.5
6	Woodfalls Junior	Cliff Kingshott	7	171
	Downton Silver	Cliff Kingshott	5
	Nailsworth & Horsley Silver	J. J. Cook	6
	Ellesborough Silver	Arthur Copcutt	8
	Chipping Norton Silver	H. J. Coombs	9
	City of Leicester Working Mens Club	R. Jackson	10
	Swindon Town Silver	A. V. Dobson	11
	Thatcham & District	A. E. Lack	12
	Hathern Prize	W. M. Anderson	14
W	Ercol Works

Fourteenth Annual Contest organised by City of Oxford Silver Band.

Highest placed band with not more than 20 players: Royal Glos. Hussars
Best instrumentalist: David Shelley, trombone, Woodfalls
Highest placed ODBBA band: Shipston Town