Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Main Street 1961
Adjudicators:	Eric Ball
Venue:	Albert Hall, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Ransome & Marles	George Hespe	3	186
2	Rushden Temperance	William Scholes	5	181
3	Hoggarths Works	J. A. Hughes	1	179
	Crossley's Carpet Works	John Harrison	2
	Peak Dale Public	Reginald Hallam	4
	Bradford Victoria	Tom Atkinson	6
	West Bromwich Borough	G. A. Morris	7

1st annual contest
7 bands competed.