Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Sirius [Wright] 1948
Adjudicators:	George Hawkins
Venue:	City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Backworth Colliery	J. W. Taylor	17	174
2	Silksworth Colliery	John Peacock	3	170
3	Middlesbrough Borough	Evan B. Edwards	9	160
4	Bedlington Dr Pit	Unknown		157
	Blyth L.N.E.R.	Unknown
	Cowpen and Crofton	Unknown
	Craghead Colliery	Unknown
	Easington Colliery	Unknown
	Hartlepool Public	Unknown
	Jarvis Industrial Welfare	Unknown
	Lumley Colliery	Unknown
	Newbiggin Colliery	Unknown
	Newcastle Corporation Transport	Unknown
	Shildon British Railways	Unknown
	Sunderland Transport	Unknown
	Thornley Colliery	Unknown
	Washington Colliery	Unknown
	Wheatley Hill Colliery	Unknown

18 bands competed.