Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Contest Music 1973
Adjudicators:	Philip Jones , David Read , William Relton
Venue:	Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Rigid Container Group GUS	Bramwell Tovey	19	195
2	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	13	194
3	Williams Fairey Engineering	Roy Newsome	4	193
4	Leyland DAF	Richard Evans	1	192
5	Britannia Building Society Foden	Howard Snell	16	191
6	Jaguar Cars (City of Coventry)	Ray Farr	14	190
7	Grimethorpe Colliery	Frank Renton	12
8	CWS (Glasgow)	Howard Snell	20
16	Brighouse & Rastrick	Derek Broadbent	2	180
	Point of Ayr (EIMCO)	Garry Cutt	3
	Lewington Yamaha	David James	5
	Desford Colliery Dowty	E. Crees	6
	IMI Yorkshire Imperial	James Scott	7
	Ever Ready	Roger Payne	8
	Kennedy's Swinton Concert	David King	9
	Besses o' th' Barn	Sandy Blair	10
	Sun Life	Paul Cosh	11
	British Aerospace Wingates	Geoffrey Brand	15
	Cory	Arthur Kenney	17
	Sellers College Brass	Phillip McCann	18

Lewington Yamaha, Cory and Besses o' th' Barn were relegated.