Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Princess and the Poet 1960
Adjudicators:	George Hespe
Venue:	St. Bede's School, Sunderland

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Pegswood Colliery	Cecil Peacock	174
2	Cargo Fleet Works	Cecil Peacock	172
3	Hetton Silver	George Scorer	170
	Cambois Colliery	W. R. Taylor
	Dawdon Lodge	Stan MacDonald
	Deaf Hill Colliery	William Makepeace
	Handen Hold Colliery	A. McLean
	Hauxley Colliery	C. E. Badman
	Langley Park Colliery	G. B. Dover
	Mainsforth Colliery	R. L. Smith
	Ryhope Colliery	William Atkinson
	South Bank Silver	A. W. Turner
	South Moor Colliery	Edward Jones
	Stanhope Silver	Jack Woodhall
	Sunderland Transport	T. T. Bryce
	Whitworth and Spennymoor	Unknown

16 bands competed.