Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Three Inventions 1968
Adjudicators:	Raymond Thorpe
Venue:	Queens Hall, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Wigan and District	Alan Mason	13	188
2	Trinity Girls	John Newbigging	7	186
3	Storeys	J. D. Robinson	2	184
4	Bolton Borough	D. Crossley	11	183
	Littleborough	J. Harrison	1
	Thornsett	Brian Taylor	3
	Lostock Hall	Ron Heyes	4
	Christ Church	Ernie Wedgewood	5
	Plessey Works	Les McLaughlin	6
	Post Office Engineering Union	William Phillips	8
	Clifton and Lightcliffe	James Nuttall	9
	Wythenshawe	William J. Corry	10
	Longridge	W. Seed	12
	Dobcross	George R. Gibson	14

Prizes - 1st £10 and trophy, 2nd £5, 3rs £4.
14 bands competed.