CONTEST RESULTS

National Championship (Ch section)

Date: 7 Oct 1989
Venue: Royal Albert Hall, London
Adjudicator(s): Arthur Butterworth, Geoffrey Brand, William Relton
Test piece: Odin, from the land of fire and ice, Op 76 (Arthur Butterworth)

Pos Band Conductor Draw Points
1 Desford Colliery Caterpillar James Watson 14 197 Flag
2 John Foster & Sons Black Dyke Mills David King 6 196 Flag
3 Murray International Whitburn James Scott 21 193 Flag
4 Britannia Building Society Howard Snell 16 191 Flag
5 Asphaltic Newham Nigel Taken 10 189 Flag
6 William Davis Construction Group Dr Keith Wilkinson 11 188 Flag
7 John Laing (Hendon) Melvin White 20 187 Flag
8 Leyland DAF Richard Evans 12 186 Flag
9 Grimethorpe Colliery Lt Col Frank Renton 2 185 Flag
10 CWS (Glasgow) Michael Antrobus 19 184 Flag
11 PMG Heart of England David Stowell 22 183 Flag
12 Camborne Town Steve Sykes 5 182 Flag
13 Sun Life Christopher Adey 13 181 Flag
14 British Aerospace Wingates David James 7 180 Flag
15 Brighouse & Rastrick Derek Broadbent 1 179 Flag
16 Parc & Dare (National Fuel Distributors) Paul Cosh 15 178 Flag
17 Ever Ready Roger Payne 4 177 Flag
18 Airquick (Newark) Ransome Don Blakeson 17 175 Flag
19 Jaguar Cars (City of Coventry) Ray Farr 8 174 Flag
20 Coal Products (CPL) Roy Curran 18 173 Flag
21 Bedwas, Trethomas & Machen Nigel Seaman 9 172 Flag
22 Rigid Containers Group Bramwell Tovey 3 170 Flag

With this win, Desford Colliery Caterpillar secured a hat-trick of National Championship victories and were barred from competing in the 1990 championship.