| Pos | Band | Conductor | Dr | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Dyke Mills | Major Peter Parkes | 13 | 190 |
| 2 | Cory | Denzil Stephens | 8 | 185 |
| 3 | Birmingham School of Music | Roy Curran | 1 | 180 |
| 4 | Carlton Main Frickley Colliery | David James | 19 | 178 |
| 5 | Brighouse & Rastrick | Geoffrey Brand | 17 | 175 |
| 6= | Tredegar | David Thomas | 20 | 174 |
| 6= | Hammond Sauce Works | Geoffrey Whitham | 12 | 174 |
| 8 | Besses o' th' Barn | Roy Newsome | 7 | 173 |
| 9 | Ever Ready | Trevor Walmsley | 14 | 172 |
| 10 | Sun Life Stanshawe | Roy Newsome | 15 | 170 |
| 11 | Bodmin Town | Alan Jenkin | 6 | 168 |
| 12 | Yorkshire Imperial Metals | Denis Carr | 11 | 167 |
| 13 | Desford Colliery | Howard Snell | 5 | 165 |
| 14 | Kilmarnock Concert Brass | Andrew Keachie | 9 | 162 |
| 15 | Fairey Engineering | Walter Hargreaves | 3 | 160 |
| 16= | Hymac Works (Rhymney) | Brian Buckley | 21 | 158 |
| 16= | CWS Glasgow | Nigel Boddice | 4 | 158 |
| 18 | Solent Concert | Wesley Garner | 10 | 155 |
| 19 | Wingates Temperance | Dennis Wilby | 18 | 153 |
| 20 | Cambridge | David Read | 2 | 150 |
| 21 | Northumbria Police | Stan MacDonald | 16 | 148 |
Prizes:
First: £650
Second: £450
Third: £300
Fourth: £200
The winning conductor also received a presentation score of the test piece.
