Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	The Three Musketeers 1953
Adjudicators:	Cecil Peacock
Venue:	Belle Vue (Kings Hall), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Lindley	Peter Wadsworth		182
2	Woolley Colliery	Andrew Owenson		180
3	Storeys	Arthur Brownbill		177
	Cheetham Hill Public	Fred Bonelli
	Eccles Borough	J. Cooney
	Farnworth Old	Unknown
	Hammonds	Unknown
	Hesketh Bank	J. A. Hughes
	Prince Smith and Stells	Unknown
	Skelmanthorpe	Unknown
	Slaithwaite	Unknown
	Goodshaw	Unknown	7

Aggregate score - Yorkshire 1788, Lancashire 1745.
12 bands competed.