Format:	March, Hymn and Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Major Cecil Harry Jaeger
Venue:	Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	Points
1	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Jack Atherton	The Frogs of Aristophanes 1952	8	186
2	Scottish C.W.S.	Robert Oughton	Life Divine 1921	9	184
3	Scottish Gas Board	Dugald MacBrayne	Diadem of Gold 1953	5	182
4	Ransome and Marles	George Hespe	The Three Musketeers 1953	3	180
5	Grimethorpe Colliery	Ken Johnson	An Epic Symphony 1926	2	168
6	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	George Hespe	A Downland Suite 1932	1	165
7	Barrow Shipyard	Herbert Sutcliffe	An Epic Symphony 1926	6	162
8	Bowhill Colliery	Drake Rimmer	Scheherazade	4	160
8	Tullis Russell Mills	Drake Rimmer	Tchaikovsky [arr. W. Rimmer]	7	160
W	55th Old Boys

Hymn tune contest - 1st Scottish Gas Board, 2nd Scottish C.W.S., 3rd Carlton Main.
March contest - 1st Carlton Main, 2nd Scottish C.W.S., 3rd Scottish Gas Board.
11th annual contest.
9 bands competed.