Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Three Figures 1960
Adjudicators:	Arthur Butterworth , Bernard Keeffe , David Read
Venue:	Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Besses o' th' Barn	Roy Newsome	18	191
2	Fairey Engineering	Geoffrey Brand	9	189
3	GUS	Keith Wilkinson	11	186
4	Desford Colliery	Howard Snell	10	184
5	Ever Ready	Eric Cunningham	6	182
6	Leyland Vehicles	Richard Evans	19	181
9	Brighouse & Rastrick	James Scott	5
16	Grimethorpe Colliery	Ray Farr	13
	William Davis Construction	John Berryman	1
	Bass Wingates	Denis Carr	2
	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	3
	Rochdale Wilsons	David Loukes	4
	Yorkshire Imperial	John Pryce-Jones	7
	Hawthorn City (Australia)	Laurie Hicks	8
	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Denzil Stephens	12
	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	14
	Fodens	Howard Snell	15
	Brodsworth Colliery	Denis Carr	16
	Cory	Arthur Kenney	17
	City of Coventry	Stephen Shimwell	20
	CWS (Manchester)	Frank Renton	21
	Sun Life	Derek Bourgeois	22

No bands lost their place for the 1983 contest.