Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Glastonbury 1953
Adjudicators:	Geoffrey Whitham
Venue:	Oxford Town Hall, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Pressed Steel Company	Squire Hallas	4	188
2	Towcester Studio	William Scholes	3	184
3	Heath Excelsior	Matt Robertson	6	182
	Swindon B.R.	Unknown	1
	Potters Woods (Kingswood)	Herbert Sevier	2
	Ellesborough Silver	Arthur Copcutt	5

18th Annual Contest organised by City of Oxford Silver Band. Evening concert by Black Dyke Mills.

Highest placed third or fourth grade band not in the prize list: Ellesborough
Best instrumentalist: cornet, Pressed Steel
Highest placed ODBBA band: Heath