Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Le Roi d'Ys 1959
Adjudicators:	Albert Chappell , David Read , William Relton
Venue:	Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Sun Life	Roy Newsome	13	197
2	Leyland DAF	Richard Evans	18	196
3	Grimethorpe Colliery	Frank Renton	14	194
4	Hammonds Sauce	Geoffrey Whitham	15	193
5	Kennedy's Swinton Concert	Mark Condron	5	191
6	Williams Fairey Engineering	Peter Parkes	7	190
7	Britannia Building Society Foden	Howard Snell	6
8	John Foster Black Dyke Mills	David King	4
9	Brighouse & Rastrick	Geoffrey Brand	16
16	Besses o' th' Barn	Paul Hindmarsh	12
17	British Aerospace Wingates	James Scott	8
	Sellers Engineering	Phillip McCann	1
	IMI Yorkshire Imperial	David Hirst	2
	Marple	Garry Cutt	3
	Jaguar Cars City of Coventry	Barry Pope	9
	Ever Ready	Derek Broadbent	10
	Stalybridge Jones & Brother	Malcolm Brownbill	11
	Asphaltic Newham	Nigel Taken	17

Stalybridge Jones & Brother, British Aerospace Wingates and Ever Ready were relegated.