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British Open
1975
British Open
Date:
6 Sep 1975
Venue:
King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester
Adjudicator(s):
William Relton, Roy Newsome, Elgar Howarth
Test piece:
Fireworks (Elgar Howarth)
Pos
Band
Conductor
Draw
Points
1
Wingates Temperance
Richard Evans
22
193
2
Fairey
Kenneth Dennison
14
191
3
Yorkshire Imperial Metals
Trevor Walmsley
3
190
4
Cory
Major H Arthur Kenney
17
189
5
Skellerup Woolston
Mervyn Waters
6
188
6
Stanshawe (Bristol)
Walter Hargreaves
5
186
Besses o' th' Barn
Ifor James
13
Brighouse & Rastrick
James Scott
9
Burton Constructional (Newhall)
Ernest Woodhouse
4
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
Robert Oughton
19
City of Coventry
Albert Chappell
7
Coventry School of Music
Leonard Pepper
10
Desford Colliery Welfare
Robert Mandell
2
Ever Ready (GB)
Eric Cunningham
1
Hammonds Sauce Works
Geoffrey Whitham
12
Lindley
John Harrison
16
Morris Concert
Walter Rees
15
Patchogue Plymouth
Peter Kitson
11
RHP (Newark)
Geoff Tomlinson
21
Templemore
Jack Burch
8
Thoresby Colliery Welfare (DOSCO)
William Lippeatt
18
Whitburn Burgh
Derek Broadbent
20
Woodfalls
Courtney Bosanko
23
Black Dyke Mills barred from competing owing to their hat-trick in the preceding three years
Grimethorpe Colliery also barred due to the association with Elgar Howarth, composer of the test piece