Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Eric Ball
Venue:	Central Hall, Birmingham

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Points
1	West Bromwich Borough	G. A. Morris	Recollections of Beethoven [arr. Greenwood]	182
2	Aldridge Town	E. T. Smith	Indian Summer 1950	164
3	Lilleshall Colliery	W. Imeson	The Black Prince	162
	City of Gloucester Junior	George Beckingham	The Black Prince
	Loughborough Borough	Charles Albert Anderson	The Golden Age
	Sharnford Silver	Ernest Cooper	In Switzerland 1953
	Somersham	W. G. Cooper
	Stone Town	Edwin Dixon	The Black Prince

Prizes - 1st £12.12s, 2nd £10, 3rd £7.7s.
8 bands competed.