Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Three Musketeers 1953
Adjudicators:	Donald Morrison
Venue:	Edward Wood Hall, Leicester

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Birmingham School of Music	Roy Curran		195
2	Grimsby	Glyn Lewis	16	194
3	Rushden Windmill	Peter Kneale		193
	Arley Welfare	Cyril Yorath
	Bedworth	John Talbot
	Bestwood Black Diamonds	Bernard Wilson
	Black Country Brass	Dennis Emery
	City of Coventry Imperial	Edward Massey
	Coventry Festival	Philip Cooper
	Kibworth	William Scholes
	Ratby	Betty Anderson
	Shirley	Tim Lord
	South Notts Hussars	L. J. Hartill
	Spillers (Gainsborough)	Geoff Tomlinson
	Telford	Barry Pope
	Teversal Colliery	Keith Wilkinson
	Walsall Metropolitan	Peter Bright

Grimsby drew second to last

17 bands competed