Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Gay Delavals 1971
Adjudicators:	Alwyn Lloyd
Venue:	Playhouse Theatre, Buxton, Derbyshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Whitworth Vale and Healey	Hugh Parry	5	184
2	Chadderton and District	William Orcher	13	183
3	Brodsworth Colliery Junior	W. Smith	10	182
4	Oughtibridge	Arthur Barlow	14	181
4	Market Rasen	Keith Edwards	16	181
	Haigh Prize	Alan Mason	1
	Chapel-en-le-Frith	R. Orritt	2
	Chapeltown Silver	David Grey	3
	Stannington Community Association	R. Shaw	4
	Salford Silver	James H. Cooke	6
	Trinity Girls	Granville Jennings	7
	Darwen British Legion	Alan Marsh	8
	Whaley Bridge Public	P. Cordey	9
	Bakewell Silver	Len Birds	11
	Marple	M. McClean	12
	Mossley Hollins School	B. Farrar	15

Prizes - 1st £35 and trophy, 2nd £20 and cup, 3rd £12.
9th annual contest.
16 bands competed.