Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals 1949
Adjudicators:	William A. Scholes
Venue:	Co-operative Hall, Darlington, County Durham

Position	Band	Conductor	Points
1	Shildon British Railways	T. W. Collinson	190
2	Bradford Victoria	Unknown	188
3	Moderna Blanket Works	Unknown	186
4	Rothwell Temperance	Unknown
	Easington Colliery	Noel Thorpe	180
	Hickleton Main Colliery	Unknown
	Lindley Prize	Peter Wadsworth
	Middlesbrough Borough	Evan B. Edwards	177
	Silksworth Colliery	John Peacock	179
	Thornley Colliery	Edward Kitto	170

Result Yorks 911 points Durham 896 points.
Aggregate score with section 2 - Yorks 1,811 points durham 1,765 points.