Format:	Own Choice from a Specified List
Adjudicators:	John Harrison , W. Skelton
Venue:	Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw	Points
1	Christ Church	Ernie Wedgewood	Nottn'm Town 1970	8	179
2	Moston and Beswick	Albert Risby	Everybody's Child 1963	6	179
3	Post Office Engineering Union	Marcus Cutts	Nottn'm Town 1970	3

Prizes - 1st £25 and cup, 2nd £15 and cup.
Contest run as an experiment - all three sections played in one pre-drawn contest, with a choice of three test pieces per section.
3 bands competed.