Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Overture for an Epic Occasion 1945
Adjudicators:	Eric Ball
Venue:	De Montfort Hall, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Riddings	Geoff Gossage	13	89
2	City of Coventry B	Albert Chappell	9	87
3	Coventry School of Music	Leonard Pepper	17	86
4	Shirland Miners Welfare	Doug Carlin	1	85
	City of Leicester C & I	G. Boyce	2
	Daventry & District	Bert Sullivan	3
	Dunchurch Silver	W. C. Spooner	4
	Calverton Colliery Welfare	Norman Brown	5
	Kirton Brass	Gareth Thomas	6
	Rushden Mission	C. V. Page	7
	Towcester Studio	William Scholes	8
	Hathern	Fred Starkey	10
	Cleethorpes Borough	Albert Weston	11
	Warwickshire and Coventry Constabulary	Ralph B. Tarn	12
	Aldridge Brownhills	A. J. Withnall	14
	Stamford Town	G. M. Elliott	15
	Loughborough	Bud Fisher	16
W	Brigg & District
W	Leicester Foresters
W	Rolls Royce (Derby)
W	South Notts Hussars

First Prize: The Midland Region Challenge Shield and £15
Second Prize: £10
Third Prize: £7