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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
Woodfalls
Courtney Bosanko
23
1
Wingates Temperance
Richard Evans
22
193
RHP (Newark)
Geoff Tomlinson
21
Whitburn Burgh
Derek Broadbent
20
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery
Robert Oughton
19
Thoresby Colliery Welfare (DOSCO)
William Lippeatt
18
4
Cory
Major H Arthur Kenney
17
189
Lindley
John Harrison
16
Morris Concert
Walter Rees
15
2
Fairey
Kenneth Dennison
14
191
Besses o' th' Barn
Ifor James
13
Hammonds Sauce Works
Geoffrey Whitham
12
Patchogue Plymouth
Peter Kitson
11
Coventry School of Music
Leonard Pepper
10
Brighouse & Rastrick
James Scott
9
Templemore
Jack Burch
8
City of Coventry
Albert Chappell
7
5
Skellerup Woolston
Mervyn Waters
6
188
6
Stanshawe (Bristol)
Walter Hargreaves
5
186
Burton Constructional (Newhall)
Ernest Woodhouse
4
3
Yorkshire Imperial Metals
Trevor Walmsley
3
190
Desford Colliery Welfare
Robert Mandell
2
Ever Ready (GB)
Eric Cunningham
1
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