Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Three Songs without Words 1947
Adjudicators:	Wesley Johnstone
Venue:	Chelsea Old Town Hall, Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Mid Hants Schools	John Knight
2	St. Dennis Junior Cornwall	Eddie J. Williams
3	Trinity Girls' Silver Bryn Nr Wigan Lancashire	John Newbigging
4	Leicestershire Brass Band Association Youth	Albert Chappell
7	Wigan & District Youth	Alan Mason	5
	Chase Cross County Boy's School Romford	W. C. Richardson
	City of Oxford	Nobby Challis
	Denbigh High School Luton	George Crossland
	Ehenside Secondary School Cumberland	W. H. Proud
	Featherstone County Boy's School Southall Middlesex	Alexander Mitchell
	Hammonds Sauce Work Junior Shipley Yorkshire	Gershom Collison
	Lascelles School Harrow	Eric Smith
	Mardy House Secondary School Aberdare Glamorgan	R. D. Mabey
	Netteswell Youth	B. A. Taylor
	Raans County Secondary School Amersham Bucks	Llewellyn Teideman
	Redbridge Music School Brass Ilford Essex	John Ridgeon
	Stalybridge West Hill Secondary School Cheshire	A. E. Evans

Winning band played Three Songs Without Words again in the Albert Hall that afternoon during the judging intermission of the main brass band championship.