CONTEST RESULTS

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 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
	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)	G Tomlinson	21
	Templemore	Jack Burch	8
	Thoresby Colliery Welfare	William Lippeatt	18
	Webb Ivory (Newhall)	Ernest Woodhouse	4
	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