Past Results

Date	Winner	Conductor	Test Piece
16 Mar 1957	Pressed Steel Co. Works	Squire Hallas	Normandy (Symphonic Ode)
25 Feb 1956	Section not held.
16 Apr 1955	Section cancelled - crossed through on the programme without further annotation.
1954
1951	Not held again until 1954.
01 Jul 1950	High Wycombe Town	Philip Catelinet
1949	Cancelled due to low entry.
26 Jun 1948	Hazells Printing Works	Jonathan T. H. Alderson	Carmen
1947
22 Jun 1946	Morris Motors	Harry Mortimer	Labour and Love
1940	Not held again until 1946.
10 Jun 1939	Hazell's Printing Works	Jonathan T. H. Alderson	Recollections of Weber
18 Jun 1938	Reading Spring Gardens	George Watkins	Recollections of Balfe
12 Jun 1937	Headington Silver	R. O. G. Jenkins	The Call of Youth
29 Aug 1936	Fairford Silver	A. J. Cook	Autumn Echoes
1934	Not held again until 1936.
17 Jun 1933	Section not run due to a lack of entries.
1932	Not run due to lack of entries.
27 Jun 1931	Aylesbury Printing Works	William Smith	La Favorita [arr. Godfrey]
28 Jun 1930	Morris Motors	Sydney Wood	Coriolanus
20 Jul 1929	Section cancelled due to lack of entries. 1st prize: Frank Gray Challenge Shield, £12.12.0 2nd prize: £6.6.0 3rd prize: £3.3.0 Medals for euphonium, cornet, trombone, horn. Special prize: Higham Challenge Cup for the best cornet soloist of the day, open to all sections. To become the property of any player winning it three years in succession.
21 Jul 1928	No Section 1 this year (cancelled due to low entry). Prizes were cascaded down a section, so the usual Section 1 and 2 prizes were respectively given to Section 2 and 3 bands.
16 Jul 1927	Hanwell	Willie Greenwood	Gounod [arr. W. Rimmer]
17 Jul 1926	Willesden Town Silver	C. McManus	Labour and Love
18 Jul 1925	Huthwaite	Charles A. Cooper	I Puritani
19 Jul 1924	Hanwell Silver	Willie Greenwood	Rigoletto [unknown arranger]
25 Aug 1923	Headington Silver	Frank Brooks	The Dawn of Spring