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Results - > Majors - > British Open

1968

British Open

Date:	7 Sep 1968
Venue:	King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester
Adjudicator(s):	Tom F Atkinson, Gilbert Vinter, Lt Col Basil Brown
Test piece:	John O'Gaunt (Gilbert Vinter)

Pos	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Black Dyke Mills	Geoffrey Brand	10	194
2	Wingates Temperance	Hugh Parry	15	193
3	Grimethorpe Colliery	George Thompson	2	192
4	CWS (Manchester)	Alex Mortimer	16	191
5	Fodens Motor Works	Rex Mortimer	18	190
6	BMC (Morris Motors)	Cliff Edmunds	17	189
7	Fairey	Leonard Lamb	12	188
	Besses o' th' Barn	Frank Bryce	13
	Craghead Colliery	Eric Cunningham	4
	Crossley's Carpet Works	John Harrison	9
	Edge Hill (British Railways)	William H Yates	7
	Lindley	Ernest Woodhouse	8
	Mid-Rhondda Workmen's Silver	Fred Prior	3
	Mirrlees Works	Jack Atherton	5
	Mossley	William Skelton	1
	Ransome & Marles Works	Stanley Boddington	6
	St Dennis	Eddie J Williams	19
	Templemore	Alfie Bell	14
	Yorkshire Imperial Metals	Trevor Walmsley	11
W	Greenway Moor		-	-