Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Introduction, Elegy and Caprice 1978
Adjudicators:	Denis Carr
Venue:	Guild Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Leyland Vehicles	Richard Evans	3	187
2	Point of Ayr Colliery	Graham Jones	9	185
3	Northop Silver	Graham Jones	1	183
4	Dobcross Silver	Peter Weston	14	181
	Skelmersdale	William Lyon	2	0
	Greenalls Champion	Jim Pearson	4	0
	Poulton-le-Fylde	Squire Eccles	5	0
	Thornsett	Ellery Ainley	6	0
	Walkden	Ernest Vint	7	0
	Stacksteads	Edward Tarling	8	0
	Tyldesley	Brian Peacock	10	0
	Middlewich Town	Colin Cranson	11	0
	City of Chester	Mervin Hughes	12	0
	Brindle	Graham Smith	13	0
	Mossley	Brian Broadbent	15	0
W	Flimby Saxhorn
W	Port Sunlight Royal British Legion			0

15 bands competed.